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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Gabriela Santiago's “Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker.”



Gabriela Santiago’s short stories have been published in ClarkesworldStrange Horizons, and The Dark, and were most recently anthologized in We’re Here: The Best Queer Fiction 2020 and Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World. You can follow her @LifeOnEarth89 or writing-relatedactivities.tumblr.com.
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My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
In this endless dark winter / he comes as furious as / a lion’s claw
Now that I am back in our homelands, I am haunted. I dream of faces hovering over me, taking my blood. They suck at my veins like infants at a bottle.
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