Women and Other Creatures

A butterfly and a moth fall in love as summer draws to a close.A government censor in a fascist dystopia realizes they're trans while reading an illicit fic.A necrologist falls for the ghoul who killed and ate her companions.A cybernetically enhanced trans woman and a gynoid explore a strange planet while pining for each other. Women and Other Creatures is a collection of shorter works about finding identity, love, and community against the steepest of odds. It includes the following stories, all of which have been previously published and are available individually: Fly By Night User Not FoundIrisMay You Wear Me Like a ShellBarrow MaidThe Witch's FluteTerra Flux (novella)Sister ThrushIntended for adult audiences. Content warnings are included for each individual story; in this collection, you will find consensual sex scenes, drug and alcohol use, societal transphobia, gore, necrophagy (the eating of corpses, by the ghoul in Barrow Maid), and others.  There is very little violence in any of the stories except for the beginning of Barrow Maid.