Hummingbird (Hummingbird Universe, #1)

by T.C. Parker

And so what if it was dangerous, if it was risky? His whole life was a risk, a roll of the fucking dice: every trip to the shops fraught with worry that the wrong type of angry cis dude would clock him as shorter and softer than a man ought to be;

the contrails of guilt he leaves in his wake are very nearly visible.