Cover Photo: Scene from "Fleabag"; Two Brothers Pictures, BBC Three, Amazon Studios
Scene from "Fleabag"; Two Brothers Pictures, BBC Three, Amazon Studios

The Gospel According to Fleabag

The truth was, for me and as for Fleabag, I wasn’t just looking for a good story to tell my friends. I was looking for something so much harder to grasp: a narrative.

trash person . . going through a hard time right now.

interesting you never said this wasn’t okay; we agreed not to be exclusive

that time when: That time when

He told me he wanted a full-time master-slave kink relationship, and also to control his partner's finances, But I figured, like, doesn't every guy in Brooklyn want to mooch off you and treat you like shit?

Fleabag—

that time when

Fleabag

that time when

Fleabag.

FleabagI’m a fleabag, a trash person; the world is trash; you’re probably a trash person, too. Oh well. Nothing really matters.

Sex and the City’ Girls’

, but

Oh well,Fleabag

something.

FleabagHim?

Fleabag

Fleabag

Is FleabagFleabag

sees minein the world

Dasein

funny

that

is

Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novel SOCIAL CREATURE (Doubleday, 2018) and the forthcoming nonfiction STRANGE RITES: NEW RELIGIONS FOR A GODLESS AGE (Public Affairs, 2020)