TRUE MATE REJECTED
Blood red, or sunset orange, or pink as my tongue; blue as twilight or green as a coiled fern.
Ama scoffs. “Let’s not make ourselves more of a freak than we already are.”
Lewis grabs my shoulders, pivots me around, and marches me toward the corner. He urges me inside an outhouse-sized room with golden- green walls like dragonfly wings that smells damp, like the bog. Only this dampness smells sweet, like springtime flowers. Metal things protrude from the wall. Lewis twists one of them, and water pours from another metal device on the ceiling. “Strip out of these rags and step under the water. You can use any of those bottles…” He points to several items on the floor. “And wash your hair and y
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