A couple times in my life, I’ve had men say to me that they wondered whether I cared about anyone else at all. And it’s such a deeply weird thing to say to someone. Who doesn’t care about anyone else at all?
In retrospect, I guess I kinda have to wonder if they were projecting.
It’s a pretty big red flag. I don’t really see a friendship coming back from that.





For this piece, I experimented with pasting the whole damn story into ChatGPT & asking it to come up with an illustration. It took a lot of editing to fix it up right, but DALLE3 captured the heart of the story on its first try! And it complimented my world-building! So, win-win.