Becoming a Gill is a sweet, but intriguing short story from Fictionmania author Maryanne Peters. The mother of the Gill family is still trying to cope with the death of her young daughter which leave a void in the family and their lives. One day she encounters a young runaway boy outside her home. He is polite, but hungry and very much filled with a mysterious past, she "adopts" the young boy and tries to honor his request to keep his identity and location a secret she does, but under the condition that she can hide his identity by dressing him up as a girl!
Sample:
"I want to accept you as Paris," he began. "A Guest in our house. No, not just a guest, family. But I have read about the person that you were before you came here. And I am worried. I could not allow that person to stay here, with us."
He was watching Paris's face. The color drained out of it. The hard part was done.
"As a girl, you present no threat," he continued. "So, it is a girl you must become."
"What do you want me to do?" she asked softly, with a hint of fear in her voice. "What do I need to do, to be able to stay?"
The family accepts the young boy as girl, but with time he begins to accept more of his newfound gender identity...thus is he Becoming a Gill ?
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The story is from Maryanne Peters and found on Fictionmania!
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