Status Updates From Fat Swim: Fiction

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.

Sunday's- 2 stars. I don't get it.

Fat Swim- 5 stars. WOW. A love story to fat bodies.

“I want both cake and pie, to live by the ocean and in an ocean of strangers. One day I stick a jumbo yellow barrette in my hair, pair it with a cotton sundress; the next I’ll pull on Carhartt work pants and a sleeveless muscle tee. I do not mix and match, I do not mash up. I separate, alternate, switch, repeat.”