Anne Social

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“The Inadequate Ideal” by Anne Social

Submitted to Contest #183

What do you do if everyone says they love you, but you hate yourself? That sounds dramatic. Cliché. Morbid. Whatever negative word you want it to be. Yes, it has to be negative. Because if you don’t believe the positivity of the people around you, then you have to believe the negativity that hides beneath. You know it’s there. It’s there when you say it’s a beautiful day (which by any objective standard is true), but you’re lying because you prefer stormy days that force you to stay inside. It’s there when you say someone looks pretty (which...

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Anne Social is secretly four rats in a trench coat. The rats focus on writing character-based tragicomedies.