Kira K. Homsher is a writer from Philadelphia, currently living in Los Angeles. She is the winner of phoebe’s 2020 nonfiction contest and a Pushcart nominee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Passages North, Longreads, and others.

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Real Needs

By KIRA K. HOMSHER

I was in love with him, I told myself, and he had proven himself to be completely unknowable.