Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets, Papa would say, she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.