Aiden Thomas

There’s no such thing as monsters.”

Even through his polyester-and-spandex binder

Being transgender and gay had earned Yadriel the title of Head Black Sheep among the brujx. Though, in truth, being gay had actually been much easier for them to accept, but only because they saw Yadriel’s liking boys as still being heterosexual.

They would see him as he was. A boy and a brujo.

“You stay here with the rest of the women!”

“The rest of the women,” he repeated, spitting the words out as if they were poisonous.

Navigating pronouns was a minefield when language was based on gender.

but it was East LA, where the sun never seemed to set.

If Bahlam appears and drags us down to Xibalba, I’m going to be pissed,

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