Opal and Oestre

by Liza Olson

In the far future, a newly out trans technowitch named Opal finds a phial of estradiol in a dusty old drawer while scavenging for relics.

After meeting the Pagan goddess Oestre who's the namesake for this wonderful elixir, she and her robot cat Remee set out on a quest to synthesize more, share it with other trans magech girls, and find the community she's always wanted.

ebook

Expected publication March 20, 2026

About the author

Liza Olson is the author of the novels Here’s Waldo, The Brother We Share, Afterglow, and Boundless and Bare. A Best of the Net nominee, Best Small Fictions nominee, finalist for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, and 2021 Wigleaf longlister in and from Chicagoland, she's been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Cleaver, Pithead Chapel, and other fine places.