Dig.

by A.S. King

In many ways, The Freak feels naked all the time. In many ways, The Freak is naked all the time. It’s probably what scares people most about her.

Control the brain and the rest is easy.

Tradition. You can say what you want so long as you’re not throwing anvils, I guess. They call it freedom of speech or traditional family values. The louder ones call it heritage—as if it were in our blood to be assholes to other people, as if we’d inherited it.

Whatever gets you through.

“Thing is,” he says, “we can run around the planet a hundred times and we’re still who we are.”