PodCastle 143: Hurt Me
Hurt Me
by M.L.N. Hanover
“It’s a good, solid house,” he said, nodding as a trick to make her nod along with him.
“It is,” she said. “The price seems low.”
“Motivated seller,” he said with a wink.
“By what?” She opened and closed the kitchen cabinets.
“Excuse me?”
“Motivated by what?” she said.
“Well, you know how it is,” he said, grinning. “Kids grow up, move on. Families change. A place maybe fits in one part of your life, and then you move on.”
She smiled as if he’d said something funny.
“I don’t know, actually,” she said. “The seller moved out because she got tired of the place?”
The realtor shrugged expansively, his mental gears whirring. The question felt like a trap. He wondered how much the woman had heard about the house. He couldn’t afford to get caught in an outright lie.
About the Author
M.L.N. Hanover
MLN Hanover is a pseudonym for fantasy writer Daniel Abraham when he’s writing urban fantasy. In addition to The Black Sun’s Daughter series, MLN Hanover has published several short stories.
About the Narrator
Elizabeth Green
Elizabeth Green lives in Austin, Texas, where she works in communications, hobbies in knitting, moms a hilarious 15-year-old man-child, reads nonfiction voraciously, and does her level best to keep her midlife super-queer.
