Hush, the adults said, do not speak of these things. He realized at a young age, there might be places he belonged. All her life she had known what she wanted. Sitting between her relatives at the dinner table, Angel understood what was expected. Had you said what you believed, it would have ruined your career.
Language is pleasure and power.
Mac, in drag, looks almost pretty. Only his arm, slung over the back of the sofa where he is sitting, looks slightly too long, his gesture too expansive for a woman. There is no model to emulate. This a process of discovery. He spoke of my writing as influenced by writers I had never read.