Today’s free read was originally written for a contest for QueerSciFi. It had to be 300 words exactly – and LGBT/Sci-Fi of course!
This longer, and current version, was written in response to an LGBT Short story challenge by Rae Kitano on Wattpad – with the requirement that one character had to be speechless.

‘One of your characters does not, can not or will not speak. Why?’