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In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Christopher Blake's "A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief" read by Emmie Christie. You can read the full text of the story, and more about Chris, here.

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Chris is a palliative care physician by day and a writer by night. He is a dad (cat and human), by his back-of-the-napkin calculations, approximately 32 hours a day. His short fiction has appeared in Galaxy’s EdgeZooscape, and Stupefying Stories. Find him on Bluesky at chrisblake.bsky.social.
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