Aunt Ashley, explained

As with all of the blog posts in the category ‘My Stories’, this contains spoilers, and shouldn’t be read until you’ve finished the associated story… in this case ‘Summer with Aunt Ashley’.

Some time ago, Christina and I were lamenting the fact that so many trans- themed stories are formulaic almost to the point of parody… only without intending to be funny.

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Well, why not? Sacred cows make the best burgers.

“I’m almost tempted to write a story that begins with a classic TG theme, but where nothing at all happens,” I said to Christina.

“Do eet,” she replied – or words to that effect.

So I did. It took a long time: a couple of months before it was ready to share. Before that, I sought out help from other fans of tranny fiction, asking what were the most clichéd elements in TG stories. This furnished me with details such as the dance, and the business of instantly being able to walk in heels… but (as you will know if you’ve been a good girl and read the story before you read this) there is a twist: none of the transgender stuff that is hinted at happens to the central character. This despite his deliberately gender-ambiguous name, Jordan Kelly (a name so clichéd that one of my friends also had a story in draft that employed it…)

Thus we have the airline mix-up where loads of people lose their luggage, but not him; the frilly apron and the French maid’s outfit that he doesn’t end up wearing; the aunt who wants to feminise him… and fails utterly.

It’s not a very popular story on Fictionmania, but it amused me to write it.

Somewhere along the way it acquired a sci-fi backstory, allowing me to wrap things up more-or-less neatly at the end. I hope you’ll let me know what you thought of it.

Most of all, I simply hope that you’ll forgive me.