Octavia raised her chin, pursed her lips and carefully traced her absolute favorite bubblegum pink lipstick exactly around the edges of her lips.

Maybe not the best choice for a Pacific Northwest lesbian bar but Octavia knew what she wanted and what she didn't.

"You're tall for a girl," Mom always said and that was certainly true. Didn't mean Octavia couldn't find a lovely butch girl who wanted a big happy femme, now did it?

The question was whether any of the girls in the bar tonight would actually realize that Octavia was looking for love.

Theorem of Bright Half-Light is a bubbly rom-com about love, life and going for what you want when everyone assumed you were after something else entirely.