story: “Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver”
author: River Solomon
year: 2018
where: Al Reem Island
note: Included in Best American Short Stories 2018
a line: “I want to tell her–know this: The world plays out as games of power, who has it, who doesn’t.”
theme(s): Mothers and daughters, transgender, intergenerational trauma, power
samantha Neugebauer 