Hey y'all, happy Thanksgiving week. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode, but I wanted to showcase an immersive remix of one of my favorite stories by Rebecca Roanhorse, one of my favorite authors,

called The Take Back Tango.

It's a great heist story set in outer space.

I hope you enjoy it, and I'll see you next week.

Hi, I'm LaVar Burton, and this is

LaVar Burton reads. In every episode I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

Well, y'all, today I'm going to read you something from a very specific genre of crime writing,

the Heist story. Now, I love a good heist story and unlike when I was a kid I love rooting for the

heisters. I love a heist where the criminals actually pull it off.

It gives me great pleasure when that happens.

This story is by one of my favorite authors,

Rebecca Rowan Horse. And I've read a couple of her stories here on the podcast

over the past few years and I just keep getting sucked into her work.

It's often got this dark sense of humor and she has a really fantastic way of writing genre that center black and indigenous protagonists and I love that.

Welcome to your authentic Indian experience. T.M. was a virtual reality story from the perspective of an

indigenous man who has to act like an Indian. Her story wherein Abigail Fields

recalls her first death and subsequently her best life

was a Western tale of vengeance set in an all-black settlement and now we've got a caper story, set in a galaxy where people

plunder from smaller, more vulnerable planets. It's called the Take Back Tango and was first published in the anthology A Universe of Wishes.

Now in the story our protagonist is a very clever and outwardly confident young woman who's flying solo, except for her

trustee AI sidekick. And when we meet her she's preparing for her latest heist, one that she hopes will write some wrongs from her

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