Dana Murray

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“Waiting for Winnifred” by Dana Murray

Submitted to Contest #154

CW: Harsh language including homophobic slurs I was eight years old the first time I kissed Winnifred. We were in one of those covered tubes on the playground, the hard plastic rife with static electricity. It was warm, and mostly dark, the sun muted through the bright orange of the tube. And it just seemed like the right thing to do. Winnifred was going by a different name at the time, and she seemed to all the world a strange, shy little boy. I could sense something different about her, though. Even under the layers of confusion and r...

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Dana Murray is a fantasy and science fiction author who writes short stories and novels. Her writing is informed by her experience as a queer woman, her love of fantasy and science fiction, and her commitment to verisimilitude.