I could have made up this entire list with selections of Mary Ruefle’s work. This piece on her experience of the menopause starts with an image of a ‘cryalog’, recording just how often she cried during one month. “Anyone who has periods is a girl. You know this is true and it is very funny to you”. Yes, so funny and so, so true…

First published online in Granta, and included in My Private Property, Wave Books, 2016