Story Recommendation: "This Is Math" by Joey Comeau

She never got higher than a C- in high school math, and that was good enough for the school boards, and good enough for her. It wasn't math, either. He probably got an A. The first time she ever saw math, real math, was in that used bookstore, when she opened an old book and let her breath catch inside of her. The symbols were a maze on the page, an incantation. It was a coded message that sent electricity through her whole body, and she put her own meaning into it, right there.

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