This story also made me think more deeply as an editor. The ambiguity and thorniness about whether what happens at the end of MYCOPHILIA is 'good' for Asher isn't really the point; it's the contextualisation of how he got there and why what happens can be viewed as both horrible and relieving.
jonny
"MYCOPHILIA" is one of our most beloved stories, Tiernan Blanchard really struck a nerve with readers about the experience of being trans and poor and how alienating and lonely it can be.
Asher lives in a shithole. It wasn’t always a shithole. A couple of centuries back it would have been a nice townhouse for a respectable family of means. Since then it’s been chopped into two flats, t...
