Trans Men/Mascs in Storytelling, Part One (6) Living in the Margins
“They hadn’t kissed yet or anything, but the way he looked at Elfie, the little stolen glances, the casual brushes of his fingers against theirs–it was just a matter of time. How could they explain this to Ma?” - The Witch’s Flute, a Trans Pied Piper Retelling by Dani Finn (2025) The immortality of folk tales is that we can retell them in any time, in any culture, and they still retain a truth about the human condition–they are truly universal. The Witch’s Flute by Dani Finn (they/them) is a retelling of The Pied Piper with a transfeminine Pied Piper who leads the other trans people out of a bigoted village and to a commune where they live peacefully. In the margins of this story, there is a transmasculine character who exists amidst the story, not in a particularly significant role, but in the eleventh hour is the love interest for our nonbinary protagonist. Rhett is a baker who our main character, Elfie, remembers and misses for his salt crusted bread. He makes his on page appe...
