Cringe is art

Barbara Castro-Rojas
3 min readAug 12, 2022

who the fuck cares if you’re cringe?

There’s a couple a few chairs over talking about a fast food restaurant and its anti-LGBTQ politics. I know I shouldn’t listen, but I can’t help myself. The girl in white talks about how “everyone there is friendly, so it can’t be that bad”. Her friend, a European lad with a soft accent and big ears, replies with something salty about American hospitality. What he means to say…

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Barbara Castro-Rojas

Barbara Castro-Rojas is the author of ‘Anywhere but Here’ and a writer of horror, musings, & poetry. Twitter– @squigglybug https://www.barbaracastrorojas.ink