An Androgynous Adventure
Merlyn’s Reverse: An Androgynous Adventure
by Kall Mann
ISBN: 9798311812702
Merlyn was never sure whether his rare condition was a blessing or a curse. The Jazz singer Jimmy Scott said that all that was “needed was the courage to be me. But that courage took a lifetime to develop.” Like Merlin the mage, he felt old but was also moving closer to a rebirth as the years passed. Was he also some kind of shifter of shape or gender?
This story begins in Wales as it passes through the fragmenting post-1960s era. 1976, and Merlyn is rootless, with an uncertain identity. The world he is thrown into is falling apart, some say in the final stages of decay. There is something in the air, a sense that a big change is coming. Like the Fool in the Tarot, or a Candide, descending, Merlyn is at first a soul lost in search of a self. There are no experts to give wise counsel, only his companions, the comrades, as they call each other. All these characters are beginners too, with the imperative to find a way as best they can in the three worlds: the physical, the perceived, and the represented.
Contents:
Rebel, Rebel
A Bus Ride Home
“Fuck off, 1976!”
Dawn Explosion
Mags
Phil
Newtown
Fighting
Special Branch call
London
Women
Protest
The Mall
The Sand Bar
School
The Red House
Politics is dead
The Police
New Years
Merlyn
London 1986