Monica Heisey

‘Monica Heisey’s observations on men, women, friendship, love and sex are equal parts hilarious and profound’ Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love ‘Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable’ Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel

Really Good, Actually

Katie Thyer

Even if it feels like the worst year of your life, it could always, always get worse. 

I want to mean it when I tell someone ‘no worries’. 

sina (she/her) 

In the past, I was worried about basically everything, basically all the time. Now my constant, low-level anxiety was replaced by a feeling of dull invincibility I referred to as 'haha, so whať'.

Amy, one false eyelash starting to peel away from the corner of her eye, looked at me like I was the dumbest idiot alive.

Keeping a journal seemed like a slower, somehow more tedious way to think about the things I had already bored myself with by overthinking, No.

It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering – my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead. Inspiring: This Woman Hates Herself. 

Emma Hak-Kovacs

I’m trying to imagine the kindest way to say I’ve met someone when:

I turn at the same time Jon does. We both see the man immediately—can’t miss him, because of the crowd that’s formed. He runs toward us in his massive, experimental trousers, smiling and waving.

“There she is,” says Harry Styles, slipping a stylish, tattooed arm around my waist.

Jon clocks it immediately: our easy intimacy, the flush in my cheeks. I feel a flicker of compassion for the man who was once my husband. I want to ask Harry Styles to be a little less familiar, to show some respect for the awkward situation. I want to say, Harry Styles, please. But I know I can’t stop him—he’s too excited, it’s all so new. Jon’s face falls, but he reaches out to shake the hand of the international superstar I met by chance on an airplane and charmed by pretending to be unfamiliar with his discography.

“Better not, mate,” says Harry Styles. “I’ve spent all morning fingering your wife.”

Ellie 

I am an ‘average-sized' woman-still, it is very difficult for me to buy trousers, like it seems impossibly hard, and I don’t totally understand who trousers are for, if not average-sized people in general. 

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