love your face

She shows them she loves them by peeling off their faces and affixing them to hers. She cries like them, she spits like them, she blinks like them. She speaks in a funny accent; forgets words she’s always known. She votes haphazardly and curses at her mother.

Every night, she takes the face off and lays it by her sink for morning. But one night she falls asleep in it — and realizes how much easier that feels. So she stops taking it…