Emily was born and raised on Mars, in the Terran Commonwealth, where on paper morphs and humans are equals, but in reality society is highly segregated. There are opportunities easily available to humans that just aren't options for most morphs. Such as transition, for a person who feels weirdly comfortable in her male online alter-ego. But now that she's successfully emigrated to the Alliance of Sentients, far from the solar system she grew up in, she has more options. The only question is if Emily wants to grasp them. It feels scary, like falling, to think about becoming Eli. But it also feels strangely free...

Now with a short epilogue with some long-distance feels, Uplink.

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Happy Pride month! More about this story over on my blog shortly.

There is also a sequel up now for my patrons on Patreon. Just toss me a dollar and you can have a look.