Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Was Scary, the Good Kind’
ImageCredit...Brian Rea This, This Is Easy I left a Christian cult. Tried Hinge, and the best conversation I had with a man was about Taco Bell.
I switched my preference (I came out as a lesbian at 14, and was now coming back out at 27). Quickly, I fell for Jillian. It was scary, the good kind.
Sobering, like we had known each other before. Kind, like you just want to rest in each other’s presence. We’ve lost parents, jobs, community; faced life-threatening illnesses.
Of course it’s hard. But it’s better together. “Damn,” I often tell Jillian, “life is hard; but this, this is easy.” — Jordan Kates Umma’s Fruits of Love My mom, Iris, who sings into cucumbers and gochujang bottles, who returns your silly face with her own, who falls asleep with acupuncture needles in her back but fears cats.
