<p><br></p><p>This story originally appeared in <em>Punktown </em>(2000).</p><p>Jeffrey Thomas’s books include <em>Punktown</em>, <em>Deadstock</em>, <em>Blue War</em>, <em>The American</em>, and T<em>he Unnamed Country</em>. He has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and John W. Campbell Award, and his stories have been reprinted in <em>The Year’s Best Horror Stories </em>2022, T<em>he Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14 </em>(editors, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), and <em>Year’s Best Weird Fiction #1</em> (editors, Laird Barron and Michael Kelly). Thomas lives in Massachusetts.</p><p><strong>Narration by: Christina Rau</strong></p><p>Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations in person and online. Her collections include <em>How We Make Amends</em>, <em>What We Do To Make Us Whole</em>, and the Elgin Award-winning <em>Liberating The Astronauts</em>. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on <em>Destinies</em> radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like <em>FillingStation</em> and <em>The Disappointed Housewife </em>while her prose has appeared in <em>Punk Monk Magazine</em> and <em>Reader’s Digest</em>. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. http://www.christinamrau.com</p><p>Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by <a href="https://www.amyhsturgis.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amy H Sturgis</a></p><p>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa">http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa</a>.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
