Lavender House

Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life.

People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just making our own.

The one queer who has family that loves her, and she disappeared anyway, because … that’s what you do. You disappear. It’s the safest thing.

If I’m a little light now and then, that’s the price.” “So why did your financial troubles start right around when Irene died?” I ask.

Without thinking I instinctively raise my gun, aim at the rabbit, and fire. I hit it between the eyes.

I look over to where she’s fired and I spot the rabbit she was aiming at just as it ducks out of sight. “Damn,” she says. “Missed. We should get closer.

I grab a rifle and some bullets, loading the gun as Elsie closes the cabinet.

There is no homosexual problem aside from that created by a heterosexual society.

You Just like the red apple ripening On the farthest peak of the branch Missed by the gardeners— No, They did not miss you! They just could not reach so high.