- Title: A Life in Too Many Margins
- Author: S.E. Thomson
- Genre: Dark Humor
- Form: Novel
- Reading Age: Adult
- Content Warnings: gender dysphoria, medical cruelty
Summary
A Life in Too Many Margins is a literary episodic tale featuring David, an autistic, chronically ill, and deeply exhausted queer individual.
He's survived an abusive parent, a few too many doctors with God complexes, and an education system that couldn’t accommodate a paper cut, let alone a brain like his, and now he’s trying to keep it together long enough to get out and figure out what a life outside of survival mode even looks like.
Between unpredictable joints, cruel relationships, creeping dysphoria, and backward institutions that treat disabled people like spreadsheet errors, David’s not sure how much longer he can keep pretending to be “fine.”
In A Life in Too Many Margins, David finds unexpected connections along the way, through equally chaotic friends, a dungeon master who lets him play with varying gender options, and one particularly random German policeman on a sheep farm. This book captures what it means to grow up on the sidelines in a world that keeps trying to file you away.
Image Description: The cover of A Life in Too Many Margins. The background is a deep burgundy-purple color in the upper left-side and a soft pink in the lower right-side split on the diagonal. The title is at the top in white text. On the opposite diagonal is a mousetrap with a wheelchair sitting on the edge of the trap. The back of the wheelchair is decorated with a rainbow.
Credit: c/o S.E. Thomson
A Life in Too Many Margins digital editions are available for pre-order now on Amazon, and physical editions will be at your favorite retailers on April 18, 2026.
About the Author
S. E. Thomson is an autistic, disabled, queer, unapologetically chaotic trans man. Born in the 1980s and held together with caffeine, neoprene, and dark humor, he’s lived in many places, worn many hats, and collected more life experience than strictly recommended. He writes to connect to others and to create the kind of stories he wishes he'd seen growing up: affirming, joyful, and sometimes devastating; always authentic. Believing in radical honesty, gentle rebellion, and the healing power of saying, “Hey, me too,” S. E. is here to speak with just enough snark to try to make it hurt a little less.
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