The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

by Cat Sebastian

“You shouldn’t need to hear about the destruction of a village a stone’s throw from your home, the story of a man you’ve gone to bed with, a baby whose grave you saw. I don’t care about your staircase and your gardens. They’re beautiful, but they aren’t worth the price, and I don’t want to know anyone who thinks they are.”

But the truth was that what they had between them wasn’t worth keeping if Percy didn’t understand that the things he valued—the things whose loss he felt as a calamity—were terrible and dangerous, both to Kit and to everyone who lived under the thumb of people like Percy’s father. If Percy didn’t understand that, then maybe he shouldn’t come back.