“When men honk at you, don’t smile and wave,” she said to her daughter when she got her first period. “They will crush you into dirt. You want a life like melted butter, and they want you stale. They want all the power. Don’t be nice to them. Being nice to people who would crush you is the first step in them crushing you.”
Introducing the Queen Of the Dead Beach Town: A short story about a woman dabbling in sex work
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