#transbooks — Public Fediverse posts

A/S/L (Jeanne Thornton) – 1998, three teenagers are coding a game over IRC, never seeing each other. It is never completed. 19 years later with no contact, the three are now trans women unknowingly living within a few blocks of each other. One working at a bank, another as a webcam dominatrix, and the other crashing on the floor of a friend. The game sits on old drives, but the three have not forgotten their unfinished quest.

I loved the 90s internet nostalgia and those early chatroom communities; the way many of us discovered ourselves in those chaotic spaces and dared to dream big with our art. The way Thornton presents the interplay of characters was fascinating and real. Central to this I found Sash as the original 'leader' and writer seemingly to be the most put together yet messy of the three. Following her POV kept captivating me along with the books use of second person. I am half and on the frequent use of chat logs; I find - like scripts - that it is distancing to just have dialogue by itself. Yet that distance also seems an essential part of the nature of those chats, the screen being both a facilitator to communication and a barrier to understanding.

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Stag Dance (Torrey Peters) – Torrey gives us four amazing stories here: a hormone apocalypse caused by your toxic ex girlfriend; a boarding school romance leading to bullying and heartbreak; a lumberjack winter dance where the gruffest axeman ends up volunteering to play a woman to be wooed; and a Las Vegas masquerade party turned dark.

Each explores aspects of transition with some powerful narratives. My engagement varied through them but there were many absolute gem moments and powerful vibes. Its a strong collection to inspire, or to unsettle you from your comforts. Much seemed deeply personal to me, notably sections in the apocalypse and lumberjack stories. I also very much enjoyed the appropriate shift in voice as Torrey switches genres which helped bookend the narratives as I flowed through them.

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This week’s #FridayKiss theme is regret, and I found this from A Dance of Water and Air.

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Have you met Arden and Edmund yet? Read their story now in A Dance of Water and Air.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/a-dance-of-water-and-air.html

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