Horror at suddenly remembering something stupid you said a decade ago
Hungry because you’ve been eating nonstop all day and you’ve finally gone from painfully full to just regular full and that’s what feels like hunger now
Sexual resentment
Seasonal fear of death (autumn)
A picture of a happy dog
Sexually beleaguered
Bjork
Emails
So tired you feel like your entire body is shimmering in and out of space-time
“I’ll try to make it”
Right turn on red without stopping
Golden Girls
When an article says “Continued on page 64” but then you just turned the next page and forgot about it and then you find it again at the back of the magazine
No
Prince
Hand down your pants
The anger specific to reading Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter feed
Bread and crying
Too high up in a building
Spending too much money online but not returning anything
Sneaking an unopened roll of fancy toilet paper into your purse in the bathroom of a nice restaurant and taking it home with you
“Happy Tuesday”
Sidewalk loneliness
A birthday party for the ghost of a worm and the worm ghost is wearing a tiny birthday hat and saying “thanks for coming” in his tiny worm ghost voice
Late for something
Car exhaustion
Backyard memories
Sweater weather
A little red-headed kid pulling a wagon filled with straw and also his kid brother behind him, but ruined
Other people’s essays about their dying parents
Talking about being inside of a Target with other strangers who like being inside of a Target online while you’re all at work instead of at Target
That’s it
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.