Adam

“Being the center of attention wasn't a toxin; it was an overdue therapeutic intervention. A jolt of pressure that brought Six back to life.”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“For the story of their lives in Stephensport, I have relied upon Etoine’s prison memoir. He wrote it when he thought that Zaffre was already dead, and he had nothing ahead but death on the gallows. He had no idea that he would live for decades after that, would outlive her again, would mourn her again.

Autoportrait, Blessé is what he called it: Self-Portrait with a Wound, or Self-Portrait, Injured. Nothing to do with the English “bless” or “blessing,” though you could be forgiven for thinking it, if you imagined my father had any hand for the sliding bow of a multilingual pun, or if you imagined he felt blessed.”
― Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide

“What if Walt tried to enter the mess and was mauled alive by transphobe trolls? Worse, what if she posted a video of her doing a girly little dance and nobody watched it?”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“The endless loop of Green's slackened glutes sloshing in her seven-inch baby blue shorts was a revelation—in the renaissance of American volleyball, as a tipping point for trans girls in sports, and the upending of the stereotype of buttless Asian people.”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls