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“Obsessing over [Clint's own] gender would make him dysphoric, sacrificing the many labors it took to reach this dreamlike idyll where he can just be.”

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Book:American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era

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“from THE PAUSE BETWEEN One day the dragonflies appear sudden as the sun. Speed and softness, they lash sky to air in silent seams. One's barred wings and abdomen are pressing to the warm dock's slats. Another lights on the Chekhov book you bought me, not realizing, like everything, it is a short story, too.”

Love Absence Short Stories Docks Chekhov Dragonflies

Book:Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

Source: Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

“They tumbled out of the van, eager to explore the docks. There were brown pelicans and sea lions, anemones and barnacles clinging to the planks and pilings, and silver flashes of schooling minnows in the shallows.”

Docks Sea Creatures

Book:Sugar and Salt

Source: Sugar and Salt

“A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on. “Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?” - Faith, Witch Devotions”

Vampire Paranormal Romance Paranormal Witch Supernatural Werewolf Pnr Body Parts Witch Devotions

Author:Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

“One of the guiding principles of dryadology,” I said, “is this: do not cross the sort of Folk who make collections of human body parts.”

Humor Fae Dark Humor Body Parts

Book:Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“The parts of our bodies we share with another person are called ‘private,’ while the ones we keep entirely to ourselves remain unlabeled; perhaps those are the truly private parts, and the so-called ‘private parts’ should instead be called ‘sharable parts’; English, it seems, delights in contradiction.”

Language Irony Contradiction Paradox Nomenclature Semantics Diction Lexicon Body Parts

Author:Suman Pokhrel

“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.”

Fire Alcoholism Kentucky Inferno Bourbon Dante Glass Alcohol Abuse Body Parts

Book:Forlorn Passions

Source: Forlorn Passions

“I could write an epic poem about your thighs.” “That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn’t like that.” “I wouldn’t either.” She pressed her cheek to his belly. “I can’t think of a word to rhyme with marble column.”

Humor Sex Body Parts

Book:My Favorite Bride

Source: My Favorite Bride

“My kids understand what I’m doing. They’re totally saturated in it. My daughter, she’s eleven. A little while ago, she said to me, ‘Dad, I don’t care if you become a robot, but you have to keep your face. I don’t want you to replace your face.’ Personally, I don’t have any sentimental attachment to my face, any more than I have a sentimental attachment to any other part of my body. I could look like the Mars Rover for all I give a shit. But she’s pretty attached to my face, I guess.”

Attachment Sentimental Face Transhumanism Robot Body Parts Mars Rover

Author:Tim Cannon

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