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First of its kind on the bookshelves--an anthology of "imagines", stories putting readers into a fantasy relationship with real celebrities (largely romantic). Headline stories by Anna Todd and 5 other Wattpad authors with sizeable fanbases, with another 20-40 stories from Wattpad users who best represent the new online genre.

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IMAGINES Taking Selfies and Overthrowing the Patriarchy with Kim Kardashian
Kevin Fanning
Imagine . . .

Kim Kardashian just posted a selfie, and your boyfriend is furious about it.

You were midconversation when his mood suddenly changed. Or, really, you were just about to be midconversation. You were gearing up to start the conversation. And now Kim´s selfie has ruined everything.

Your boyfriend had just gotten home from his very difficult and stressful job as a government agent, and it´s one of your rare nights off from your job at Best Buy. You´ve been hinting to him that maybe it would be nice to go out. He hasn´t taken you out on a date, an actual date, in a while. You´ve been together for a while, and it´s starting to feel comfortable. In the good way . . . but also kind of in the not-100-percent-good way. You don´t know how to have the conversation with him exactly, but you´re starting to feel, slightly, like he´s taking you for granted. Not that you don´t still love him! You definitely do. And you are positive that he loves you. You hate that you feel like you even need to have this conversation with him. You know his job is very stressful. Probably everything is just fine between you and you´re making up problems in your head.

But also: you´re kind of dying inside about another night of doing nothing, just falling asleep on his shoulder in front of the TV. You don´t want to feel bored, but, more than that, you don´t want him to think you´re boring. But you do feel bored, frustrated, overwhelmed on a level that maybe isn´t just about him. But you´re not ready to think about that yet.

You have resolved to bring up the topic. You say, gently, curiously, nonjudgmentally, "So do you want to do anything tonight?"

A very easy and blameless entryway into the conversation. Just putting the topic out there.

He´s looking at his phone, probably going through work emails even though he just left work. He´s obsessed. Not obsessed: driven. Highly focused. It´s a thing you like about him. But you ask the question and it looks like you have his attention, like he´s about to put his phone away and look at you, really look at you, and have this conversation with you, but then he swipes something on his phone and sees something that immediately changes his entire demeanor. A chill descends all around you. His grip on his phone tightens; his knuckles go white. He´s no longer looking at his phone but through it, at some distant object that has suddenly come into focus.

He´s no longer there in the room with you. You´re suddenly looking at him from very far away. And you know, immediately, that no way is he taking you out on a date tonight.

"What is it?" you ask. "What´s wrong?"

Your boyfriend inhales deeply. Something flutters just below the skin of his jaw. Finally he closes his eyes and turns his phone screen over.

"She posted. Another. Selfie," he says, viciously spitting out each syllable.

She.

And you know exactly who he means. There could only be one person he´s referring to, because there´s only one woman who ever posts selfies anymore. There´s only one woman who dares to.

You reach out to take the phone from your boyfriend. You want to see for yourself. You know you shouldn´t, but it´s like a car crash, a thing that you feel the need to witness, to experience firsthand.

You slip the phone from your boyfriend´s hand, but then his distraction breaks and he comes back to life. "Wait, no, you shouldn´t see it!" he says, worried.

And you know he´s right, but you look anyway.

Kim Kardashian has posted a selfie. She stares at the camera, at you, confidently, boldly, almost happily. Her makeup is perfectly applied, her skin so glossy it´s as if she´s li

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