Still Water

I knew going into the forest against mama’s wishes was a bad idea. Something terrible is festering inside of me now, and the older I get, the stronger he gets. Him and I are going to make it out of this town one way or another.

Still Water is a 2.5 short story about the holy body of a trans person, and the small town that should fear them.

PRAISE FOR STILL WATER

Still Water builds its horror slowly and methodically, and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading. It is an excellent portrayal of body horror, with gorgeous and disturbing imagery and the kind of body-otherness that I think a lot of gender non-conforming people will understand and resonate with deeply.

— mars adler, author of EYETOOTH

H.S. Wolfe has crafted a story that sticks to your skin like wet summer humidity and freshly spilled vital fluids, leaving you with no other option but to embrace the 'otherness' inside you and shed that which craves an often cruel comfortability. Still Water is an atmospheric short that I will not forget for a long time, and is a perfect read for the luridly hot seasons.

- Ezra Arndt, author of Awakened Darkness

Content Warnings 

Body horror, gore, implied transphobia, implied religious trauma, enforcement of gender roles, vomiting