The Reluctant TS
While Molly's intelligence is considering this work as archaeological rubbish, emotionally, it is dear to her heart for it means she will have created the nearest thing to communicating directly to people from the future. Imagine you have just finished this week’s television guide. Naturally you throw it away and it becomes intrinsically worthless. However, seal it up for 300 years and it will be worth many times its weight in gold...to an anthropologist.
The Reluctant TS, now that it is generally complete, weighs in at 360,000 not very descriptive and by necessity, short words. What is it? Well, its a strange cow and certainly diverges from her usual projects. It is autobiographical. It may in the future even be a multimedia experience but in essence, it is a detailed record of the story of twelve years made up of the daily entries from her personal diaries between 1974 and 1986 and from 1992 to the present. She has also added details of earlier times before 1974 and it is, in essence, a timeline of events that lead her to become a transgendered woman and how she found herself.
It traces the evolution of a person of no influence or herself as she was in those days but intersected with the knowledge and wisdom she has today. It interweaves and dissects facts, old friends, places and events with her present day thinking.
One thing is almost certain though. It will probably never be published in her lifetime but it doesn't matter. She did not write it for anybody alive anyway! She wrote it so that some spotty, long-haired student in the Twenty-Third century could read it and get a glimpse of what it was like to be a non-spotty, short-haired, twenty year old lay-about way back hundred’s of years ago in the 1970's and 1980's. Her main job later on though will be to change all the names so she's thanking God for search and replace! She has no wish to be sued! Moreover, parts of it may be deemed racy and not all of it shows goodwill to all people! However, having mentioned that, she may just leave all the names, places and details intact as she originally intended them to be. By then, she says, she'll be well practiced at the backstroke in a lake of molten fire so she guesses she won’t care!