Just Like Home

by Sarah Gailey

“Boys are just like girls, in almost every way. But men … men are demons, Vee.” He tugs hard on the line, and the fish twitches in a way that doesn’t give Vera the thrill that she got when it was fighting to live. “You can tell because they’re filled with a, with a foulness, a kind of grease, that makes them evil. It turns them into monsters. It’s a dark, sticky, rancid oil and, and it’s in men’s bones and in their bellies, and it, it, it corrupts.