PodCastle Miniature 62: The Transfiguration of Maria Luisa Ortega
by E. Lily Yu
Read by Julia Rios (of the Outer Alliance Podcast)
Originally published in the Kenyon Review Online (Read it online here)
The first time María Luisa Ortega cursed, after stabbing herself with a pair of steel tweezers, she turned into a sea urchin. Two weeks passed before a peripatetic priest found her lying in the sand and uncursed her. It was a frequent occurrence, he explained, and for this reason he always carried a squirt bottle of holy water in his bag, to bless the poor souls he found in the shapes of dolphins, fish, lobsters, or, in less fortunate cases, mollusks.
Rated G.
