A Broad in Cambridge

By Nicole J. Levin

Home Alone

Cell phone in hand, I pressed my body against the tiled bathroom floor and peeked through the bottom corner of the window. They were still there. Three trucks, parked in the driveway in such a way that blocked my one route of escape. I was trapped. I was alone, and I was hungry. I had no idea what these vehicles were doing here but one thing was certain: none of them were Bon Me.

This was not the way that things should have gone, in fact, it was the ideal set-up. My parents were away for the weekend, and I had the house to myself. Despite promising my mother that I wouldn’t touch her white wine or ruin the hardwood floors, I was more than prepared to throw a rager with the three people that I still kept in contact with from high school. But the surprise guests outside of my house was making that difficult.

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An Open Letter to My Unpaid Internship

Dear Bosswoman, Assistant Bosswoman, and Jim;

I am giving my two weeks notice.

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My Dignity, Please

While people are in the business of suing Tinder I would like to issue a formal complaint of my own: Tinder irrevocably tainted my reputation. And, yes, I still think that I have a reputation to protect.

You see, for as long as I remember, I have been telling people that I don’t use Tinder. But, as I just found out, it turns out I’m a liar: let me explain. 

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Some Trick

I just saw my psychic. I call her my psychic not because I see her regularly, but because the only way I’ll ever feel justified in paying her sixty dollars for a half hour of predictions is if I can also refer to her with the first person possessive.

My psychic is a fraud. Do not see my psychic.

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