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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Naiyer Masud's "Sheesha Ghat." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Naiyer, 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.
Naiyer Masud is Professor of Persian at Lucknow University. He is the author of many books and translations, but is best known for his short stories, collected in Ganjifa, Simiya, Itr-e-kaafoor, and Taoos Chaman Ki Myna, which won the 2001 Urdu Prize of the Sahitya Akademi.
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