Trans-demic Chinese Flu Sam Wong read the email from Josh Epstein, the partner in charge of the fiendishly complicated real estate deal that had consumed the last three months of their lives. “You’re going to have to close this deal without me. I’m sick as a dog, and my wife just called an ambulance to take me to Bellevue. I just hope it’s not that fucking Chinese Flu. Do whatever it takes to get this done.” Sam flinched...

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Sales of my novel, The Greatest Liar, Trans Erotica With A Purpose (TGL), had been tepid, despite the generally positive reader comments on the publishing website of an e-commerce firm named for a large South American River. The meager royalties didn’t bother me: I have more assets than I ever dreamed of owning, and my professional career is thriving. But it troubled me that the public did...

Detention Lara, as Laurence Little called herself while en femme, muted the Beast and mulled his proclamation banning travel from China. Her parents’ trip to visit her mom’s family in Wuhan, scheduled to end days later, would be indefinitely extended. So she could continue live streaming softcore femboi porn to her coterie of fans from the comfort of her bedroom. She tweeted “live show at 5 pm ET,” took off her make-up an...

Disclosure Take Off My flight to Ann Arbor was booked as Alex, so I travelled dressed as a boy. My briefs ill-fitted my round behind and my jeans slid from my slim waist. I flattened my boobs with an ace bandage and wore a bulky Wolverines sweatshirt. I barely resembled the photo on my real California driver’s license, my transition had taken a turn toward androgyny and beyond. Could I pass at TSA as Alex? My mom had book...

Even God can make an error As I knew when I was three. When I looked into a mirror And saw a face that wasn’t me.   I played with girls instead of boys. And wished myself a Disney princess. Never played with boyish toys. Secretly I wore a dress.   I found on my computer screen, How to become what I’d always been. Answers pulled from internet streams, I searched and watched them, again, and again.   The girls on-screen had...