And now you know why I'm slow as molasses at writing. I never trust that I've delivered the impression I intended. So I have to read, re-read, second-guess and re-evaluate it all. But then again, I'm much more focused on sending my short stories to publishers than posting them on Hive. But enough about me...

Isn't that funny, that your character could really be one or the other, and that the interpretation of the story only shifts slightly? I agree that it's magical to view the narrator as a boy, but just in a different way than if it's a girl.