Waiting For This Election To End Might Kill Me
After a lifetime of nail-biting elections — and 511 days of this unbearable one — it's hard to feel anything but deep anxiety.
Megan Stielstra is the author of Once I Was Cool. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, New York Times, Guernica, and the Rumpus, and she performs regularly in Chicago with 2nd Story and the Paper Machete live news magazine. Her next collection, The Wrong Way To Save Your Life, is forthcoming in 2017 from Harper Perennia
After a lifetime of nail-biting elections — and 511 days of this unbearable one — it's hard to feel anything but deep anxiety.