Short Fiction | Published with Levitate Magazine Issue 9 | May 2025 You look good, Raina. Even despite… everything. I mean, I guess I should have known that this would happen eventually. You always said you felt trapped in the wrong body. Mom blamed our first grade teacher Mrs. Crane. She said the fairy tales Crane read us were stuffing our heads with cotton. But you know Mrs. Crane. She didn’t show us Grimm Brother picture books or Disney movies. We got to hear the real fair