Valentine’s Card
︎︎︎ Selen Ozturk
︎ Feb 15, 2025
The worst part of love is waiting for and getting it. The worst part of getting it is having it. The worst part of having it is not knowing why. I know: You were waiting for love too, and I tried with grave zeal to be lovely and calm and interesting but not so much I’d put it worse than this: So you said yes and I said YES! and nothing more than this has made me your precious slave forever. Or if there's more to it, please tell me what.
Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Her work appears or will soon in Necessary Fiction, Hobart, minor literature[s], Evergreen Review, Split Lip Magazine, Expat Press, the SF Chronicle, and SFGATE.