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Podcast: Water, Birch, and Blood

Anaea Lay
Sara Norja

Issue: 11 July 2016

Direct link: Water, Birch, and Blood (mp3)

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Sara Norja's "Water, Birch, and Blood." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Sara, here.

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Water, Birch, and Blood, Fiction, Issue 11 July 2016

© Copyright 2016 Anaea Lay
Sara Norja

About Anaea Lay

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.

About Sara Norja

Sara Norja dreams in two languages. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, inkscraw, and Interfictions. Her short fiction has appeared in various publications and is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online and An Alphabet of Embers (ed. Rose Lemberg). She is @suchwanderings on Twitter.

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