Dear My Ex-Husband’s Fake Therapist,

When we see Call Me by Your Name in the theater, he weeps during the father’s monologue. For days after, I’m forced to listen to him say, “You, too, are good,” again and again until it loses whatever meaning one could squeeze out of it the first time, drops on a lime.

Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They also teach in Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures, which was a 2022 Shirley Jackson finalist. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor in Chief at the LGBTQIA+ fashion literary and arts magazine just femme & dandy.