Just how many deaths could one girl want? Immortal trans playgirl Magnolia Rhodes, lusting for her own murder, has slept with every girl in the Hive but one; her Princess, the person she wants most of all, has tormented her for eight decades. When Rochelle brings an offer—woo her by solving one of the Hive’s great mysteries—Magnolia suspects trickery, but opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime.
Love takes strange and grotesque forms for the undying, though, from time corpses and gay girl metaphysics to erotic pistol whipping, and Rochelle’s feelings might be more than Magnolia bargained for. Can she track down the elusive Archivist to safeguard the Princess’s secrets, or will time run out for them both?
Drawn in equal measure from transhuman paranoia and ero guro taboo. Transfiguration is the first installment of Collapse Disorder, a gory, surreal sci-fi chronicle of the eternal lives of unwell queer women.
It can be read standalone and runs 14,000 words, or 50 pages in print.
Horny, gore-filled and set in a spaceship where death has become irrelevant, this sci-fi horror follows an immortal trans woman on her quest to solve one of the biggest mysteries of The Hive. If she can find out who the archivist is, the one so far unattainable woman, the Princess, has promised her her favor. If you enjoy your lesbians motivated by desire and deeply unwell at the same time, then you will have a great time with this one. Ditto, if you enjoy sci-fi that warps time and space, mortality and motivation around you until you're simply spinning along, unable to predict where the story will go next. A strange, but intruiging read for me. I would have enjoyed some parts in the middle especially to be a bit longer, to allow the various reveals to hit a bit harder and develop more emotional impact, but I had a really great time otherwise and enjoyed this short sci-fi horror novelette following a really messed up lesbian MC stuck in a quite messed up place.
TW: cannibalism, death, gore, gun violence, murder, sexual content (consensual, but extreme), suicide