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I always figured that girls kiss girls and I was as straight as my hair but then I decided to stop straightening my hair and it turns out my hair’s wavy, not all-the-way curly, but maybe that’s what I am too, at least that’s what I’ve come to realize even though I’m married and mostly happy and I swear that sometimes girls just kiss girls, it’s not like it’s weird or different (right?) and it felt like freedom when I filled out a form online that asked for demographics and I realized that I could check off the box that maybe actually applied to me, but instead of being open or honest, I shut that door again, because all I could bring myself to choose was I 
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Kelsey Edwards

Kelsey Edwards is a Rhode Island based licensed clinical therapist and the editor-in-chief of "Waffle Fried (a lit mag)". She is a passionate collector of partially filled notebooks and might write a book one day. Her work has appeared in "Hawai'i Pacific Review", "Prosetrics", "Frazzled Lit", and "Two Hawks Quarterly", among others.

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