With Love, from Cold World

by Alicia Thompson

She updated her Goodreads page religiously, not to leave reviews but just to ensure that she had some kind of record of every book she’d ever read.

Once, Lauren had read an article recommending a wardrobe of only thirty-three items, providing ways to mix and match for maximum efficiency. She’d been excited to try it herself, as a kind of experiment, only when she laid all of her clothes out she realized she didn’t even have thirty-three items to begin with. She’d done too good a job keeping everything as minimalistic as possible.

Omg its me

“Not fate,” he said. “Just proof that sometimes it’s not the way you plan it, it’s how you make it happen.”