PodCastle 302: Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints
Show Notes
Rated R. Contains foxes and violence. Revolutions are rarely bloodless.
Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints
by Alex Dally MacFarlane
Jump up! Take arms! Bare teeth!
We fight for these sands.
Sink iron knives and white teeth into their scented flesh, their soft city flesh, those stealers of our homes. This is our city now, this desert with its winds that scour our cheeks, its dunes that join us in song, its rare springs that we lap at so gently. We once gulped rivers of rubies and pearls; now they do and we will never be able to claim them back. We will not let them take this final city of air and graveyards from us! Jump up!
We fight for these sands with everything we have and sometimes we forget the feel of a sister’s shoulder beneath our heads, we’ve been so long without sleep–but today will be remembered for more than this.
Today we retrieve the bodies of our Saints.
About the Author
Alex Dally MacFarlane
Alex Dally MacFarlane is a writer, editor and historian. When not translating from Classical Armenian or researching narrative maps in the legendary traditions of Alexander III of Macedon, Alex writes stories, found in Clarkesworld Magazine, Phantasm Japan, Solaris Rising 3, Gigantic Worlds and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014. Alex is the editor of Aliens: Recent Encounters (2013) and The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (2014), and in 2015 joined Sofia Samatar as co-editor of non-fiction and poetry for Interfictions Online. Questions of gender are vital to Alex in science fiction and history, particularly the relationship of both with each other and the present. Alex has written about post-binary gender in SF for Tor.com and in an increasing amount of fiction.
About the Narrator
Eleiece Krawiec
Eleiece Krawiec, a Louisiana transplant since 1985, lives in the New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan area, and is a legal assistant. In 2007 “on a whim” she decided to give voice-acting a try, and she’s been involved in it and narration ever since. Her experience ranges from voicing roles for a variety of audio dramas, beginning with her initial voicing role as Captain Cortez in Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Production, as well as a second captain in that series, Skipper Sam Cox. Eleiece continues to voice roles for two other Star Trek based audio dramas: Outpost – A Star Trek Fan Production, and Endless Vigilance: A Star Trek Fan Production. She has voiced roles for a variety of non-Star Trek based audio dramas, including Misfits Audio, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, and Darker Projects. And, owing to her love of reading aloud, she has narrated any number of stories for several podcasts, including Drabble Cast, The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, and Escape Pod.
