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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Benjamin Parzybok's "The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zaci." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Benjamin, here.

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Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
Benjamin Parzybok is the author of the novels Couch and Sherwood Nation. He has been the creator/co-creator of many projects, including Gumball Poetry (literary journal published in capsule machines), The Black Magic Insurance Agency (city-wide, alternate reality game), and Project Hamad (an effort to free a Guantanamo inmate and shed light on Habeas Corpus). He lives in Portland with the artist Laura Moulton.
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