Sabrina Carter was frustrated on multiple levels. As a jobs counselor, she was frustrated that no one was looking for a job or hiring at the moment (well, except for grocery restockers, but nobody needed a jobs counselor for that). As a Christian, she was frustrated by the fact that her church was closed and she would not be attending this Sunday, the first time for who knows how many years, stretching back decades before the Great Change. She would read the word of the Lord (Sabrina Carter was an old-fashioned woman--as far as she was concerned, God would always be the Lord, firmly gendered male) Sunday, but it wouldn't be the same.
But mostly, she was frustrated as a lesbian. Originally, Sabrina had thought that she would play around a bit, and then find a nice woman and settle down in a monogamous relationship, as she had lived with her husband of many years before his death and the Great Change. But things hadn't worked out that way. Sabrina spent a lot of time around HR people and knew the importance of the proper language. She didn't like the word "slut" anyway. So, "hyper non-monogamous" it was.
She thought of all the beautiful, horny women out there, and wanted to scream.
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Maria Sevilla too was missing church, although she was somewhat more ambivalent about it. Her congregation had dwindled to a handful, about fifty-fifty between born women who had returned to their original bodies and new women who dressed in an extremely modest fashion, Their original preacher, a man who had become a new woman, had left shortly after the Great Change, and their new preacher was a born woman like Maria. But something about how she had preached in the last Sunday before President Rodham had declared the nationwide shutdown, about how all of this was a punishment for the sinners who had yielded to the temptations of the devil, rubbed Maria the wrong way. These sinners were the people she worked with, and in her job as a hospital cleaner she had seen enough suffering among the patients with the new disease to reject the idea that they "deserved" it just for accepting their new bodies. As the years had gone by, it was harder to think that this whole thing was temporary. Maybe God just had gotten tired of men.
Maybe it was time for Maria to find another church.