Untrustworthy

Winner of the first AnnualRiverdale Avenue NaNoWriMo contest, JR Gershen-Siegel’s Untrustworthy is an LGBTQ Handmaid’s Tale. This ground-breaking science fiction novel of Dystopian politics in an oddly familiar alien culture that pits gender "norm” against gender-bend in an age-old battle.

Tathrellei s the only liberal in the Cabossian government. She represents the will of thepeople and is responsible for communicating with them about how the war with the Cavirii is going. She has a pregnant wife, and all seems well. The future seems promising, until she meets her new assistant. Something is off with the man.

When Tathrelle wakes up the morning after she first met him, she notices that subtle changes seem to have taken place overnight. She shrugs them off.

But it happens again and again. Someone, somehow, is changing everything she knows,as Tathrelle begins to wonder if her memories are faulty or if her mind is going. Can she trust the face she sees in the mirror? Is Caboss winning the war or losing it? Why is she suddenly the one who is pregnant?

Only her dreams provide a clue, a small vestige of what came before.

Trust your dreams, not your memory.