Cover Photo: Illustration by Anja  Slibar for Catapult
Illustration by Anja Slibar for Catapult

Keeping Up With The Other Us

Of course there was no best. Of course they were the same. I wanted to win in any case.

Ismat/Hadley

that

you call the dog “it” too

I got the best one

I’m sorry. I’m tired

got

got 

Mikaella Clements is an Australian writer currently based in Berlin. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Hazlitt, The LA Review of Books, Lithub, Buzzfeed, and more. She is currently working on her first novel, a literary rom-com co-written with her wife.