Sarah Connell’s Reviews > The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 146, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter 2024 > Status Update

“SHINING CITY had never been safe for people like Adamantia. The pressure of dysphoria and cold, steely contempt squeezed them to death or to a grim, forsaken self-denial hardly better than death. It was no safer in its abandonment. Hungry ghosts keened in empty homes where people like Adamantia had been scourged. Utility boxes leered with rusty, jagged smiles.”