I Read Stories: Matches by Brianna McNish
The narrator’s friend K went missing for 18 days and is different when she comes back. But everyone pretends she’s the same. Though her father has to pay the narrator to stay in the house with her and there is a contract with things not to be discussed. And K has different ideas.
This story unfolds like a puzzle and it circles the not quite obvious wound at the centre, the narrator’s manifold reactions to the strangeness of the situation.
Read This: For a shatteringly good tiny story about change and growing and the inability to fully confront traumatic events
Don’t Read This: If you want a point or satisfying ending
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