Status Updates From Fat Swim: Fiction

Fat Swim + Lost Weekend = 💫❤️💛🖤💔

The Philly accents on the audiobook are killing me

Camp Sensation: 1/5 stars. This was just WEIRD

Swiffer Girl- 3/5 stars. Honestly just a little odd? Simultaneously needed much more detail and much much less.

Lanternfly: 4/5 stars. Nothing remarkable, but was fine. And also an interesting take on the trans experience and how it can vary between two individuals, theoretically, experiencing the same thing. The weird old man sex thing was weird though

I want a friend: 4.5/5. I appreciate this one a lot. It's raw and open. And works extremely well in short form

Mama: 4/5 stars. This one finally actually worked as a short story. A mom trying to figure out her child and simply doesn't understand her, especially not her relationships.

Beauty: 3.5/5 stars. I really appreciate that we got to see the parasocial relationship from the influencers side of things were it didn't end in them being stalked and murdered. But it was still good. Again, should've been longer.

“I was a boy, but I sometimes forgot to expect the word.”

“Love curdles when it is not expressed, goes rancid, and there are many years of such expired love that I still have stored up somewhere.”

The Dan Graves Situation: 2/5 stars. This needed to be significantly longer to make any kind of impact. These all just feel like pieces of stories someone wanted to tell but couldn't figure out how to make them longer so they just wrote what they could and tossed them into this collection...

Ray's Happy Birthday Bar: 3/5 stars. Fine. Nothing really sticks out as wow or amazing.