Patsy: Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award 2020

by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

“What yuh doing out here in dat costume?” Patsy asks him, changing the subject, for she knows he’s being kind. He shrugs. “Is fah a performance.” “You’re an actor?” “You can call it dat. Isn’t dat what life is about? Pretending?” The truth in the man’s words saddens Patsy. “It’s hard to pretend an’ not worry ’bout getting caught,” she says to the man.