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The second pick for fwriction’s Best of Story of the Day comes from Alison Barker. Her story, “Your Breakup,” published in Monkeybicycle, is just so damn good.

Last week, before it was final, your ex-girlfriend asked you if she should send flowers and try to woo you back. You let it slide into the smudge of words and the dinner parties for people who pretended not to see that you avoided each other’s eyes.

Even after you replaced feathers with foam, you couldn’t breathe too deeply without a gnarled cloying feeling in your chest. No, you’re going to let the loveseat and its cushions go.