Author's note: Nora Hikari occupies the positionality of a trans lesbian of color, and this informs the narrative depiction of homophobia and transmisogyny herein.

CW: violent homophobia, violent transmisogyny, slurs

Fake girls have an essence of malice 

with reflections. Undecaying fake girls 

come in minimum sets of two for this reason, 

in erotic recognition, but fake colonies 

of up to twelve have been found in the wild. 

Fake girls are viral: infectious, 

not technically alive, extant for anguish 

and a problem to be solved with needles. 

Fake girls are an inverse, a sock-puppeting 

of organs and affections. Fake girls 

should be worn from the inside. 

Tendernesses applied on the outer surface 

result in hybrid reactions of weeping and 

autostigmata. Proper care for a fake girl 

should always maintain a minimum of violence. 

Recognizing fake girls in the wild 

is simple; fake girls will answer 

to every name but their own. 

Nobody knows where they come from. 

They arise spontaneously from even 

adequately abused populations of faggots. 

Theories remain that fake girl is a condition 

of fluid, an overabundance of humors 

resulting in leakage and difficulty lighting

even in the best of pyromantic conditions. 

Some people think fake girls come 

from a dimension made entirely of 

disease and ennui, crystallized 

forms of cosmic inadequacy forcing into 

our world out of hunger for realness. 

Rest assured fake girls are not a threat 

to law abiding citizens. Exterminatory 

expeditions to feral fake girl habitats are 

scheduled for regular intervals of the moon. 

Sufficiently disciplined fake girls are perfect 

for the home, where they maintain a visage 

of comical grotesquerie. Consider this 

a kindness, as none have been able to determine 

what the point of them is anyways.