A lower-middle-class gorgon makes ends meet bartending, while studying for a college degree and tending to a head full of snakes. From Teresa Milbrodt s Bearded Women: Stories, this tale is one in a phenomenal collection (Asimov s Science Fiction) of short fiction about the so-called freaks trying negotiate a world that is quicker to stare than sympathize.
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