Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPreamble to the Death of a Small God
Her fingers, then, had folded around the clay, her mind entranced. Her fingers traced the soft wetness, pressed gently, pressed firmly, bent, rolled,…
2 years, 3 months ago
First Girls
I wouldn't survive a slasher film. When the killer comes to town and starts popping off fresh-faced coeds, I’d eat it before we hit Act II. I have a …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh
As Annie slips into the club, she grins at Robert, all trepidation and excitement. She hardly disturbs the velvet curtains with her passing, so their…
2 years, 4 months ago
In Our Bodies, There is Heat
I was inspired by my body, and bodies in general. What it means for a body to exist in spaces that find it unworthy, unholy. And how sometimes, we al…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Forgetter
I work in a tall brick room with peaked cathedral ceilings. At one end of the room there is a brick-lined chute, chimneylike, that opens up out of th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Chase Scene
My little brother once chased me through the house with an ax. He was joking, mostly. But it certainly didn’t feel like a joke at the time. He plunge…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ten Thousand Crawling Children
Pregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and forcing …
2 years, 5 months ago
For All Your Other Daughters
Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world. Misalignme…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bête Noire
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 14:02 GMT. There is movement on the pathway for the first time in 113 days, six hours, four minutes, and five seconds. My motio…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Curse of the Boto Boy
Even before my son was born, my village had made of me a black sheep. When I was young, I would slither between the grasp of the Elders and flitter i…
2 years, 6 months ago