We are nowhere, wanting to be somewhere, idling at the starting line of adulthood.
Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
People want to be safe, not free.
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.
One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a sword fashioned out of wood. Most formidable, she was, though I didn't quite know how formidable. A...
The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.
Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.
This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.
Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting....
Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the peop...
So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.
Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield i...
I change the world, the world changes me.
Today is a hard day. Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.
Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
There are no wrong decisions only different ones.
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven'...
For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.