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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Innocent Chizaram Ilo's “Rat and Finch Are Friends.”



When he is not receiving tonnes of rejections from cat adoption agencies, Innocent finds time to read and write. He is a 2019 Author of Tomorrow and a Gerald Kraak Award finalist. Inno has works published and forthcoming in Fireside Magazine, Reckoning, Strange Horizons, Cast of Wonders, Overland Magazine, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Brittle Paper, Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, SSDA ID Anthology, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @ethereal_ilo.
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