I would have liked to keep going longer, but we had to stop bouncing on the trampoline eventually because jumping around in my tight binder was making me lightheaded. We lay down together on the mat, looking upward past the tall and shadowy gum trees in Sarah’s yard at the millions of stars. It was so quiet, all I could hear was the wind in the leaves.

Bree’s fingertips crept over and found mine. “Do you know any constellations?”

I shook my head, taking out my phone. “We can look them up.”

Flesh & Blood (sequel to Under My Skin) is a web-serial about non-binary transgender person Min Lee, parents who refuse to allow their kids to be who they are, and the many-headed beast that is ‘family’.

It’s updated weekly at 10am on Wednesday Morning (Australian Eastern Standard Time), and written by (me!) queer Author A E Dooland. My website is here.

Thanks to the artist spicyroll for being a pleasure to work with and her amazing work on this piece for the series! :) You can also follow her professional blog jennlso for more of her fantastic art.