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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Rafeeat Aliyu's “Where The Rain Mothers Are.”



Rafeeat Aliyu is a horror and speculative fiction writer based in Nigeria. Her short stories have been published in FIYAH, Nightmare, Expound, and Omenana magazines among others. Rafeeat is a Clarion West Graduate (2018). You can learn more about her on her website rafeeataliyu.com.
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For nine straight miles, the hot-rolled steel rails cut a path through the woods, a metal chain thrown into soft mud. Discarded, rotting railroad ties littered the tracksides, the stench of creosote saturating the forest air until birds no longer frequented the trees.
I didn’t complain about him / being a werewolf / He thought I didn’t know
Dark against the sky of steel / And men gather to get to its top
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