In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Marcia Richards's "Only Calculate the Motion of Heavenly Bodies."
The goddesses are so suicidal anymore. We lost Jemma and Iwahana in one day last week, Jemma to poison and Iwahana to self-flagellation. None of us were trained in seeing the signs of self-flagellation. Now we are. There is so much to learn.
Salt-tears. / Coconut offerings. / The hunger-pang of unanswered prayer.
