Mal à la Tête
June 26, 2025 at 08:38PMElla Harrigan’s essay at Split Lip Magazine looks at the necessary kindness of strangers, the unseen, unheard, unknown trials we all face in life, as well as the different ways we navigate physical and emotional pain and loss, both personal and peripheral.
Sitting on the bus, holding the empty cup of apple juice in my hands, I felt a sort of premonition. Not necessarily the future, but a future at least.
Listen: I’ll have to go to the Headache Center, or somewhere like it, every three months for the rest of my life. And so it is possible to imagine a young woman in the elevator, hollowed-out and feeling sort of violated, though she can’t quite place the feeling. I was a student near here once, I’ll say, at a very good school. I’ll lie as much as I want to. And tell her about myself, my career, my life. She’ll nod along, polite, her shirt missing a button. And I, overflowing with want, will move towards her, grasping her hand.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/06/26/mal-a-la-tete/
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