Sometimes, when you have nowhere further to fall, the slightest opportunity can mean everything. A short story by Xauri'EL Zwaan.

Xauri'EL Zwaan is a Lunarpunk Satanist Cyberqueer and a mendicant artist in search of meaning, fame and fortune, or pie (where available). Ze has published short fiction, among other places, in Galaxy's Edge, Transform the World, Saskatchewan Screams, and We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022. Ze lives and writes in a little hobbit hole in Saskatoon, Canada on Treaty 6 territory with zir life partner and two very lazy cats.