I want to meet you like trains pass through stations
The mail this evening brought my contributor's copy of Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (Lethe Press), edited by Bogi Takács. The table of contents is packed with names like Nino Cipri, Nibedita Sen, Catherine Kim, Izzy Wasserstein, H. Pueyo, Margaret Killjoy, L Chan, and Davian Aw; the cover art is stunning. My contribution is "The Face of the Waters," originally published in Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018); it was written to redress a disappointing experience of
ashlyme's with a story of canals and rain and almost certainly bears traces of recent exposure to Sapphire & Steel (1979–82). I am delighted and honored to have it included in this anthology, my second appearance in the series. Also I now own a copy of Robert Levy's Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol (2019) and that just looks great.
