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.

In many groups [the ink sac] is reduced or vestigial including the ram’s horn squid and in some species of blue-ringed octopus.

One day the Churl said to him, “Go into the town for salt for my supper, take the short way across the pasture-field, and be sure not to let the grass grow under your feet.

the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum