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Podcast: How Pleasant the Red Bloom
By: Lucy Harlow
Podcast read by: Anaea Lay
Issue: 10 December 2018

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Lucy Harlow's “How Pleasant the Red Bloom.”


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© Copyright 2018 By: Lucy Harlow
Podcast read by: Anaea Lay
About Lucy Harlow
Lucy Harlow grew up in England and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Philadelphia. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Aliterate, Bracken, and others. She is a PhD candidate in the English department at Princeton. Her website is www.lucyharlow.com.
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