In the drawing room of Franz Liszt's mistress, no one is looking at Chopin's eyes.

A nameless drifter has the only thing he calls his own stolen from him by a band of thieves; amid a world of lawlessness where the quickest draw makes the law, he sets out to get it back.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Lara Elena Donnelly's "Chopin's Eyes."

I reach into my nose and pull out a rainbow tapeworm / as a token of goodbye