Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane

By Cat Rambo

In this short story, which originally appeared in the Glitter and Mayhem anthology, small-town Indiana in the 80s is an uncomfortable place for Arturo, who has a secret life at the local gay bar. When he introduces his best friend, Anna, to the place, he finds both of them swept up in a story of magical obsession and servitude.

Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated Cat Rambo’s been called one of the strongest storytellers in a generation of speculative fiction writers. Her emotionally rich stories play out against worlds that are evocative, imaginative, and beautifully but economically realized.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cat Rambo
• Release date: Jan 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311990082

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Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane

Copyright 2015 Cat Rambo

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Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane

Here's Anna Plane and I all through high school: a bushy-haired, white geek girl with a tattered fantasy paperback in the rear pocket of her jeans and me, Arturo, an equally geeky Hispanic theater boy.

Here's us a few years later, dividing time between jobs we hated and the college classes those jobs paid for. Still best friends (of a sort), still sharing trials and tribulations, still with an unspoken question between us mostly on Anna's part, because I knew the answer.

And here's when I finally answered it, and broke Anna's heart.

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South Bend, Indiana, didn't house many dance clubs, even in the height of the disco scene. Saturday Night Fever had made it more mainstream, but most of the citizenry still regarded disco with a touch of suspicion as a breeding den of sex-borne illness and drugs, even though it was already dying