Almost

Sometimes the most powerful memories are of things that didn’t happen | Fiction | Fresh Soup

When the memory of one of the first – and least successful – dates in your life keeps resurfacing, loud and clear, deep in your mind’s stormy sea of memories, you finally realize that there are very few things better preserved than the sense of missing out.

Illustration by Maya Betser

 

I almost kissed a girl once. Writing about it now, I realize it doesn’…