The Art of Inventing Untruths
SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM The Art of Inventing Untruths By: Richa Jain Author bio: I write occasionally. ADVERTISEMENT “I miss you.” I lie through my teeth, knowing that when she gets my message, Jane will be sobbing and begging for me to come back. I lie about it all, telling her I find the way she can’t ravish a meal if two different foods are touching each other endearing, as if she weren’t a twenty-six-year-old woman who behaved like she was ten. That I miss the way she’d wake me up by jumping on our bed, as if I found it comical and adorable and not incredibly aggravating. ADVERTISEMENT I tell her everything I know she wants to hear, because I need her to come back. You see, Jane might not be the woman I love or envision spending the entirety of my life with, but she is the woman that has made my life comfortable to a degree I’ve grown accustomed