Beata’s Reviews > Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 > Status Update

"The reality is that pain makes it hard to use logic. It makes it hard to make plans, even plans to make things better. And pain is a lonely experience: it makes it hard to reach out."

The first story didn't particularly grab me, so I abandoned it for the next one and it was a great decision: other are definitely better.