System Update

The chaotic short story of a runaway bride

Twenty years old, depressed, and sexless, I sat on the toilet with my panties around my ankles, Googling “how much sex in a relationship is normal?” The new Amazon slip dress I’d bought to “spice things up” bunched around my waist, already defeated. I’d just been rejected (for the third time that week) in favor of a new level on Hogwarts Legacy. My ego …