The two of them sat beside each other on his old couch, where they’d agreed to meet. There was a space between them that could fit a third person.

“Can you truly understand how your mind works?” he asked.

“You are your mind,” she replied.

This made him feel worse.

Jordan Moffatt is a writer and improviser living in Ottawa. He performs improv with the Bad Dog Theatre Company and Crush Improv. His writing has been featured in many places online, including The Big Jewel, Broken Pencil, and The Reject Pile, with work forthcoming in The Feathertale Review. He is a founding editor of the online humour magazine Vandercave.