I completely neglected to mention that I self-published “Ragdoll: A Monster’s Soliloquy” on the Trans Day of Visibility. This is up as a pay-what-you want available in epub and pdf. The illustration work is my own, and the formatting was done by my perpetual partner in literary crimes, Celia Lake.
I will warn you that Ragdoll is basically like nothing else I have written, it is intensely a niche piece, and if it’s not your cuppa that is absolutely fine. It is my most not-for-everyone story but the people it’s for it is pretty extremely for and it mattered to me to put it out in the world.
For content warning, uh.
“Ragdoll” is body-horror-adjacent, cosmic-horror-adjacent, is probably technically first person but is addressed to an unspecified ‘you’ who does not have any dialogue in the story but is occasionally reacted to, and is an extended rumination on transition, the monstrous nature of puberty, cicadas, terrible unicorns and their implications for AFAB-raised social trauma, and my obsession-since-age-seventeen with the Erasure cover of “River Deep, Mountain High”, originally a Tina Turner song. If you imagine the speaker as a polite, affable xenomorph who is gently baffled and exhausted by humanity you more or less have the vibe.
And I managed to update it in my published works page without ever mentioning it here, because I am a silly being with the executive function of a carrot, and I’m allergic to carrots.
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