by Dahlia Adler
Dahlia Adler has also written:
- Home Field Advantage (2 gay cheerleaders; at Randall High School & West Plains)
- Cool for The Summer
- His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined (found. at Canyon High & Randall High)
Word Count
34- fuck
12- ass (half-ass, asshole)
4- bitch
25- shit (shitty, shit-hole, shitshow, shittier, bullshit)
2- Jesus (in vain)
3- damn
2- sexy
1- pregnant
7- queer
6- gender
2- nonbinary
3- pronouns
5- demon
3- naked
41- witch (witchcraft)
7- drunk
2- beer
24- wine
1- vodka
1- slut (slutty)
4- pissed
1- porn (torture porn)
1- Planned Parenthood
1- strzyga (is usually female demon similar to a vampire)
"When I finally tell my mother I'm trans, I do it over dinner." - pg 96
"I don't feel like a girl," I tell her, hands knotted over my twisting stomach, eyes downcast on the kitchen table. "I'm. a boy. My body's just--wrong." pg87
"My head is full of gender fuckery and laughter and wicked smiles, and I just want to go lie down and fantasize for a while." pg 96
"I have an appointment in my phone's calendar, three weeks from tomorrow, at a Planned Parenthood in Illinois, to talk to someone about starting HRT. " pg103