Month: November 2025

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 39 – I’m Romily’s replacement roommate. She’d been sharing the apartment with a first-year grad student who fled Ohio two weeks into the semester and took her furniture with her. The search for inexpensive, nonshitty furniture has been Romily’s winter break obsession. I half expect her to present a

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck   –Panel 1: Establishing shot of an Upper West Side high-rise apartment building.Panel 2: Medium shot of the back of Lydia Deetz’s head, dark hair tied up in a ponytail, knocking on an apartment door labeled 19F. Panel 3: Medium shot of the door open. Inside the entryway is a man with stubble

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 37 – Ifill a lot of notebooks over the semester. Some have a clear theme and intention, while others contain random thoughts and ideas. Characters who are based on people I love or can’t stand. Sometimes I draw the people I can’t stand as potatoes or radishes. Mostly root vegetables.

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 36 – Idon’t have any art supplies here, but I create some quick sketches on a yellow legal pad the night before the first class. I need to practice. Shake off the dust. Maybe I’ll impress myself by being just as skilled as I was at eighteen. But not having

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 35 – Ionly let my alarm go off once now that I live in a space where two of my walls are accordion-style divider screens and a third is a sheer Urban Outfitters curtain I bought at Goodwill. For the last few weeks, I’ve been subletting a room (using

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 34 – “Promise me one thing,” Romily says, pulling over to the curb. “Don’t sit in the sad little lounge area before security waiting for Nick to show up. I can’t take the mental visual of you looking around at the entrance, all expectant.” “I’m not doing that,” I say,

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 33 – “Ihave something for you,” Nick says, handing me a small rectangular package wrapped in bright green tissue paper. “Kira picked it out at King’s Island. And wrapped it.” “Maybe I should open it when she’s here,” I say. “Did she have a good time?” Did you have a good

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 32 – On Monday morning, I do not skip my alarms. I don’t keep my 9:16 a.m. appointment with myself. I get up, intending to shower and look presentable by the time Mom and Perry return from their mini-staycation. I’d spent all of Sunday with a knot in my stomach waiting

Read Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Chapter 30 – Mom walks down the aisle in her blush-colored “effortless crepe sheath.” She was very correct to go for a “geometric keyhole cutout” in the back. She was also correct not to appoint me to an official role involving walking down the aisle, reading a poem, or maintaining good