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In this blog post, we are both time-travelling and staying in the present. We’re not afraid of a paradox here, no sir. Those mad few of you who keep up with my shenanigans might remember a post I made last year, gushing about the moon. During my many months of “No”, I not only received my contributor copies of what might be the single most beautiful book I have ever been lucky enough to appear in (yes, the one pictured above, the one with all the foiling), but I was also asked by the lovely people of Flame Tree if they could feature my flash fiction in their brand new, shiny-shiny podcast Myth & Fiction.

I love—no, I adore hearing my work read aloud. Naturally, I said yes!

I have made my love for Punchdrunk’s Viola’s Room no secret. I have mentioned it at every available opportunity. Imagine my excitement, then, when I discovered that my story, “Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea”, would be appearing in an episode alongside Barry Pain’s “The Moon-Slave”—the story that inspired Viola’s Room, and therefore the reason it exists.

I’ve mentioned before that this anthology, my submitting to it and my being accepted, feels like fate. This solidifies that feeling. The lovely folks in charge of curating the Myth & Fiction podcast had no way of knowing that I am deeply, utterly, and completely in love and obsessed with anything Viola’s Room and Viola’s Room-adjacent. They had no way of knowing that that show changed me as a person—and yet. Here it is, that story alongside mine.

This may be my favourite publication.

Yesterday, my episode of Myth & Fiction went live. I love how my story sounds, Olivia, the narrator, did such an excellent job. I’m so pleased.

If you’d like to have a listen, it’s available on all the usual podcasting platforms, or, you can listen to it on the handy player below!