Kate Axelrod is the author of the novel The Law of Loving Others. She holds a BA in creative writing from Oberlin College and an MSW from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Making Things Up

A Story

by Kate Axelrod

It was late January when I started to notice ingrown hairs along my bikini line. Probably two dozen of them blooming around my groin. I showed Becky, who said decisively that they were not ingrown hairs. Then she showed me an actual ingrown hair beside her eyebrow, a black dot aching to break through.

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