The high-tier prizes involved top-of-the-line gender-affirmation surgery—usually stuff not covered yet by health insurance.
Pui touches his nose to confirm he’s still there. He’s alive and, surprisingly, grateful.
We stayed warm and near to each other around the crackling flames. That’s how we continued on.
Clarity knows how to turn your pain into an apology, but Nid Jeuniper has trained me a way out of this scenario.
This, I knew, was no mere dream: At long last the flood had come to cleanse this preposterous city.
Listo had suspected the curse since the hospital, but after his first full moon it was a fact.
I kept wondering what I could do to be better than them, much more than what I could do to be good.
“A humble name. Shi Tou cannot be mistaken for a precious stone. To be something ordinary makes you less fragile.”
Mary decided then and there that Harold would do. She missed skin on skin. She missed letting go.