Gender Panic and Other Stories

In "A Girl, a House and a Secret," a woman who's been fired from her teaching job after being outed as trans gets a job as tutor to a disabled child. But there's something the family is hiding... In "Nine Months and Counting," a farmer in a far-future post-apocalyptic world dreams of being a woman and having babies. But in the waking world he has a crisis on her hands as his wife goes to the village market with a flat belly and comes home hours later, nine months pregnant. In The Wakened Princess, a team of archaeologists are exploring a strangely-preserved palace full of people who have slept for centuries when they discover what it will take to wake them. It will change a trans grad student's life. In "Smart House AI in Another World," a household AI from a small suburban town finds herself suddenly inhabiting a large stone mansion in a strange city, summoned there by a wizard to keep house for him and his family. She wants to find a way home, but first, one of the wizard's children has a problem she may be able to help with... In "Race to the Altar," the reading of a mage's will leads to a race among his descendants to see who can be the first to get married and claim the inheritance. In "By Strange Ways," a trans waitress is accosted by a naive, eager trans girl from another world who wants to know how she can become a woman. And eleven more. Contents: (those marked with a * have not previously appeared) A Girl, a House and a Secret Workaround Gender Panic Race to the Altar By Strange Ways * Armored Misteleported Unstuck Smart House AI in Another World Two First Times (comphet-free edition) The Etiquette Teacher * Carpet-Bound The Accidental Detective * Nine Months and Counting * A Post-Scarcity Christmas The Wakened Princess * Cataloguing, Casting and Cracking *

Trismegistus Shandy lives in the northern hemisphere. They've been writing since childhood and posting stories online since 2007.