The Invocations

by Krystal Sutherland

“Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women.” “What about trans women?” Zara asks, writing the question in her document. “How does that work?” “Of course I have written invocations for trans women,” Emer says. “Demons do not care about bodies. They only care about souls.”