Spit

A grimy hungover first-person crawl through gender, lycanthropy, body horror, risking detransition, skeptical allyship, guilt, species euphoria, cheap meat, and bodily fluids. 

Violent change might break you, but slowly, methodically, you can heal and maybe become more yourself than you were before.

3,500 words. Originally published in Dog Teeth issue 1: Interspecies.

Content warning: body horror, forced detransition, gore.

"Spit" is exactly what the best literature is: profoundly visceral, raw, and honest. Quinton uses the mediums of lycanthropy, grime, and anxiety to ask each of us: what price are you willing to pay to truly live as yourself? Is there any cost great enough to make you hesitate? "Spit" takes the reader's gaze and forces them to look in the mirror and face the answers.  

– Blue Canis, Hugo-nominated author

In Spit, Angela Quinton asks: Have you ever needed something with such an awful intensity that you would burn your world as you know it in exchange? If you have, come commiserate. Come celebrate. If not, come and see.

– Anonymous