"Suppose you were me," Kolay said to Galla, "and a foreigner came to you to ask why there are transsexuals in the world. What would you say?"

"There's a long, slow conversation going on, in which all the organisms in the world exchange information and adapt to changes in each other and in the environment. Studying natural selection is one of the ways that we humans have tried to listen in on this conversation."

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Margaret Ronald's "The Witch's Knives."

I will / and will not / be comforted / by six arms and a triple goddess / Ménage à trois