A 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Bisexual Fiction With an arrestingly frank literary voice and plenty of sly humour, Jess Taylor explores the strange oppression and illumination that desire can create, the bewilderment of adolescence, the barriers to intimacy we discover within ourselves and the ones imposed on us, all while championing expressions of female sexuality in their many forms. In “Tight ‘n Bright,” a twenty-something woman goes home to have sex with a guy she met on an afternoon lake cruise, only to realize that he disgusts her, but not as much as her own behaviour does. In “The Puberty Drawer,” friends gleefully share their innocent yearnings, confusion, and wonderment at the power of sexual drive. In “Cavern” a married couple begin to see a star-filled black hole above their bed that grows larger as they become increasingly estranged. In the title story, four girlfriends grow up, drift apart, and pine for each other in isolated silence, until one of them is murdered.