“Stalking Dave Eggers” by Elizabeth Ellen
I’m not even sure what this was. An essay? A short story? Was any of it real?
If you’re a halfway-imaginative person, crushes—like that of Elizabeth Ellen on Dave Eggers—turn into obsessions which turn into imagined scenarios which turn into half-believed memories and then into full-blown alternate realities. Oh, it’s absolutely batshit, but Elizabeth Ellen has written the most true depiction of falling in love in a digital age.
