In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents G.V. Anderson's "Das Steingeschöpf."

I’d not long been made journeyman when the Schöpfers’ Guild gave me my first commission in 1928. Frau Leitner from Bavaria had written to request a small restoration–I took the southbound train from Berlin, made two changes, and disembarked at the end of the line in a small town tucked between the pleats of the mountains. 

at dusk, the jigsaw puzzle of the cracked mesa molts sulfur blue, nuclear-fissions into a Jericho of blue roses and peacocks.