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: For inspiration, read their original short stories and first-person essays which often explore themes of identity and transformation.

Julian smiled, the silver of his shears catching the light. "The 'effortless' look takes the most effort of all," he murmured. In the Cut

"I want to look like I don’t care," Maya said, her eyes fixed on her reflection. She was a high-stakes litigator whose life was currently a tangle of deposition schedules and a dissolving marriage. "But in a way that makes everyone else care very much." : For inspiration, read their original short stories