I ignore your endless texts; prioritize friends, hiking, the gym.

You’re needy and overbearing; a people pleaser with no life of your own.

“I can be whatever you want me to be!” you wail.

“That’s the problem,” I sigh.

And putting you back in the box, I wait for UPS.

Michelle Wilson graduated from Bennington College with a degree in literature and creative writing. Her words have appeared or are forthcoming in Wigleaf, Gooseberry Pie Lit, The Daily Drunk, Bending Genres, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, Litro Magazine, 50-Word Stories, Flash Fiction Magazine, Potato Soup Journal’s Best of 2021 Anthology, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and elsewhere. Her story ‘Fish Brain’ was nominated for Best of the Net 2022. She lives with her partner in Washington, DC.