s's Reviews > Stag Dance

marketing for this was kinda deceptive — its reprints of two old stories + a novella and new story. so as a collection its all over the place. her concerns have barely evolved past this line from 'the masker' (2016): "the disturbing knowledge that comes from distinguishing in others the parts of yourself that you most hate." OK girl. anything else? the tedious novella 'stag dance' is not funny and technically sloppy, burying moments of inspiration under flat farce and an affected "old-timey" voice: strained, put-on prose that in her vulture mag review grace byron claims, outrageously, is "smooth like slate". WHAT!!! juicing this because it's from a time "before pronouns" kinda points out that mainstream trans lit has to date come from/focused on a tiny handful of modern perspectives 😖

in the plus column: the cover is nice.