God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hired, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mather's, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose dead eye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.

Libba Bray

Beauty Queens

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