Shift Change Rules
The generator was already humming when I pushed through the back door of the clinic at eleven, my flashlight in one hand and my keys in my…
Matter-of-fact transgender stories
Stories in Transgender tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 23 to 25 minutes. Writers to know: Paradox of Drift, The Roan Thread and Garnet Story. Readers usually start with “Shift Change Rules” and “Lunar Interval”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Matter-of-fact transgender stories, ranked by readers
01 02 Lunar Interval
Dolores had been sitting in her parked car outside the planetarium for twenty minutes, which she knew because she kept checking the clock…
03 Keys in the Ink
I'm forty-four years old, newly divorced, and I was standing in the parking lot of the Snowy River Curling Club arguing with a laminated…
04 The Odd Loaf
Ren pulled up outside the old house on Marine Row at half past nine, exactly when Lars had told him to be there on Tuesday.
05 Drywall and Dust
I was twenty-eight that fall, and I want to get the ages out of the way up front because people always ask.
06 Scarlett's Sunday
Washington Clausen had a system, and the system was this: everything got packed into the blue plastic tote the night before, so Sunday…
07 Practice Room Confessions
The keycard Cherise lent me feels warm in my hand, like it knows it shouldn't be here either.
08 The Sweat Break
The Gilded Beet on a Friday night was less a restaurant and more a controlled burn, and Daisy stood near the hostess stand feeling like a…
09 The Key to Next Door
Wendy had lived in the building for exactly three weeks and she still could not get the damn key to turn on the first try.
10 The Weight of Her Ink
There's something strange about how intimacy starts.
11 Bitter Grounds
Russ Schmidt was forty-four years old and his hands had been purple for three days.
12 The Last Night Before
The boxes were winning.