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She takes a deep breath and presses her foot to the gas.
Celia Laskey, from Cover Story
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She takes a deep breath and presses her foot to the gas.
Celia Laskey, from Cover Story
I'll regret it if I do it, and I'll regret it if I don't.
Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You
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The Details Will Be Ours
You meet someone, you fall in love, you get married, you buy a house with three bedrooms, you have two babies, you remodel your kitchen, then you die.
Fiction by Celia Laskey
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-details-will-be-ours/
'Wouldn't you like to feel better? Wouldn't you rather not be angry?' I sighed and put a hand on my hip. 'No, I don't think I would.' I said it as a knee-jerk reaction, but as the words settled over me, I recognized it was true. What would I be, if not angry? Who would I be? 'It's sort of like, my whole personality,' I added in a jokey tone.
Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You
Looking back, I wondered if the closeness was real or if she had just faked it, matching herself to me in an imitation of intimacy.
Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You
Is Ellie really that good of a friend to you, though? . . . She's always seemed so self-interested to me—expects a lot from you but never gives anything back.
Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You
We had both been living in our own subjective reality, with our own subjective truth. Maybe all those years when I thought we were thinking the same thing, we weren't at all.
Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You