story: What Terrible Thing It Was
author: Esmé Weijun Wan
year: 2017 (but read in 2018’s Best American Short Stories)
where: home with Bowie
note: I remember the morning I found out Trump won too. I was plant-sitting at a magical apartment in Al Ain Towers with my then-boyfriend, who woke me up to break the news. We drank coffee on the biggest sofa and then, the parking lot at work was silent
a line: “In terms of depression, however, sadness is not so much my problem, in which case it might make most sense to choose I DO NOT FEEL SAD. Yet it is my belief that this could never be the right answer as long as I am alive.”
samantha Neugebauer 