I think your atoms and my atoms were pressed close in that dense, hot ball at the beginning of the universe.

Then everything expanded, but not us.

Maybe that’s why you annoy me so much: because we’ve been stuck together for infinite eons, and I just really need some space.

Lex T. Lindsay is a queer writer living in Texas with her two cats and probably more spiders than she’d care to know about. Let the record show that she enjoys both Captain America and tacos a normal amount.