Crushing

by Genevieve Novak

The single most underrated quality in a person was silliness.

This is what it is to be a woman: to give. To give life, to give support, to give herself, to give in. And in return she receives: contempt, indifference, more requests,

She gives until she breaks, a spiderweb of cracks in her porcelain skin, holding still until she shatters into a thousand tiny pieces.

‘Why is romantic love the benchmark? Why do you think it’s more meaningful than any other?’