This short story collection by Bogi Takács is highly recommended from me. It's tough to evaluate a set of stories as a whole, but this is a set of great stories in a sea of consistently really good ones. Unsurprisingly, this collection deals in gender, religion, and neurodiversity; characters are messy outsiders and never fit simply into boxes.

In lieu of reviewing stories individually, here are some fragmentary moments that stick with me: * a magical apprentice during a war transformed into a water caltrop as a punishment and inadvertently abandoned * a student living in a housebeast and contractually feeding it blood on a regular basis * cultural appropriation of magical clothes harming their wearers * a city maintained by suffering, but rather than an Omelas sense it's a consensual bdsm sense * one story got at nuances between different non-binary identities, something I'd never seen in fiction before