Have You Had the Surgery?
By Alastair Anders
Copyright 2012 Alastair Anders
Smashwords edition
For adults only.
As Nell dialed Arie’s phone number, their fingers shook. Arie’s phone rang for a long time, and Nell kept imagining Arie bleeding out in a back alley, or signing away a kidney beneath a flickering fluorescent light. But then someone picked up.
“Arie?” Nell asked. “It’s me. I was just calling to see how you were doing.”
Arie sounded a little groggy, but otherwise fine. “Oh, thanks. I’m doing pretty well, considering.”
Nell swallowed. “How did it go?”
“It was scary,” Arie said. “But I came through it all right. How did yours go?”
Nell reached into the waistband of their silk pajama pants and scratched the new skin around the rim of their freshly installed Universal Genital Port. “Fine.”
“Oh, did your insurance company pay out?”