The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

by Cat Sebastian

An easily disproven falsehood is no better than a confession

There were rich men who didn’t use their money and power as cudgels, but they still always knew that they had a cudgel ready at hand. They got so used to it, they probably thought they were doing a grand thing by not wielding it. And Kit hated them all for it. People might say that what he really hated was the system that put too much power in too few hands. But Kit knew he also hated the men.

This would have bothered him not so long ago, but he found that having thrown out a good number of his principles and reorganized the remaining ones, it was getting easier and easier to make room for new ideas.

This was what he wanted—the chance to be known for the worst of what he was and to be held dear anyway, the ability to trust a person as more than an ally.