If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) Unprotected is a record of

Unprotected is a record of survival

and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city

and in the process

She loves her life

From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) Unprotected is a record ofGrowing up gay in the small Greek Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition to find within