Author Katja Lewina knows everything that can go wrong in love. On the tour for her book “Ex” she collects the most bizarre separation stories from the audience. This time it’s about Annette with the dick guy.
By Katja Levina
The light of the spotlights pops, I’m sweating in my dress on the stage. “Well, which one of you has a really bad break-up story up your sleeve besides me?” I ask the audience. Ex, the book I’m on the reading tour with calls for more confessions. Every evening a copy of the book goes to the best story, the audience decides. An arm immediately shoots up. It belongs to a red-haired woman, maybe late twenties, from what I can tell in the dark. Let’s call her Annette.