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About this story
The Wages is in many places a story about trauma and its aftermath. Brandy Cinnamon Wages is a berieved mother, and this is explored in detail in the story. As her tale progresses, she also encounters, fights against, and contributes to numerous injustices. There are many episodes of trauma that are both fictional and references to real historical events, and they are often not resolved in any conclusive manner.
Content warnings by Chapter:
The Wages, Set One: Setting The Stage
3. All of the Things That We Are Given
4. Radio Play
7. Can’t Touch a Dream (But You Can Feel It)
The Wages, Set Two: Story Songs
11. Masterstroke: Sexism and harrasment, emotional isolation and anxiety, coarse language, adult situations, compulsive behaviour, religious trauma, red flags that imply spousal emotional abuse
12. Mudslingers
13. A Marked Woman
17. The Room Where They Tell You
18. Watch Yourself
22. Battle Fires: Murder, incarceration, war, dismemberment, death by fire, genocide
23. Songs and Parables: Homophobic harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, homophobic violence, conversion therapy, alcohol abuse, risk of choking, childhood terminal illness, death of a child, grief, depression, suicidal ideation, coarse language
26. The Lone Sister
27. When Daughters Become Angels
30. The Wages