We knocked on the door, and a nightcapped head appeared at the window.

To lose 40 pounds is no small feat, especially when one is working to achieve a healthy, neutral relationship to one’s body, but for fat people on the other end of the fat spectrum, “super-fats” and “infinifats,” gender affirming surgery might be out of the question entirely.

The theory makes total sense: the more probesome a male duck is with his penis, the more parasites he is likely to pick up, ergo the more parasitised is his pecker.

There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.