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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Kelly Rose Pflug-Back's "The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Kelly, 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.
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back's fiction, poetry and essays have recently appeared in journals such as This Magazine, Counterpunch, Ideomancer Speculative Fiction and Goblin Fruit, as well as anthologies such as The Moment of Change, The Monster Book For Girls and Imaginarium 2012. Her first book, These Burning Streets, is forthcoming from Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness. She is an undergrad student in the Human Rights and Human Diversity program at Wilfrid Laurier university and a contributing editor for Fifth Estate Magazine, America's longest-running anti-authoritarian publication.
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“I’ve never actually visited the pā before,” she said out loud. “Is this where they gather lāʻī to make the pūʻolo?” she asked. “Yes,” Benny responded, glancing to see where Nanea was pointing. “Here and in other places as well. Many of these ti have been growing for decades now.” She paused for a moment. “I think about all the work you guys do, you know, up in those offices, and I think that all of that work actually starts from right here, in the ground, all covered in the earth and the pōhaku and the ti. Most people don’t even know it, but it all starts right here.
sometime in the night, we heard rocking and knocking and rapping and tapping, a million trillion tiny feet
The triangles bred and twisted, replicating themselves.
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