Anna Fitzpatrick

It’d be way easier to be a better feminist if my boobs weren’t so tiny.”

before friendship required coordinating schedules

I wake up and fumble to turn off my alarm, which is also my phone, and then pick up my phone, which is also a computer,

Part of being a journalist, I’ve been told, means not taking everything personally, but part of being Lucy means everything is personal, all the time, unless I’m convinced otherwise.

I don’t miss it any more than I miss the bridge club I was a part of the first six months after I moved to Ohio. It was a nice moment, but the world has changed so much

maybe true happiness comes with having someone hot answering your texts.

I have once again tangled myself up in expectations I’ve invented for myself, a test I’ve failed with nobody keeping score.