Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.

In every episode I hand pick 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.

Before I get started today, I can't wait to let y'all know that season 3 of Lovar

Burton Reads drops in your podcast feed next month.

That's right, July 24th begins season 3 of the pod and we have some incredible stories

lined up and we are including some of your listener requests as well.

I cannot wait to share them with you.

And I hope that today's episode will tide you over in the meantime.

I have been saving this live episode to share.

Now this past January, the science fiction and fantasy community and the world and readers

at large lost the incredible author Ursula K. LaGuene.

You know Ursula as the author of many, many short stories, novels and essays both for adults

and children.

She wrote the Earth Sea series, The Lail of Heaven and Catwings and her work continues

to be loved by people around the world.

So when I visited Portland, the place she called home for many years, it was only natural

that I'd want to read a story by Ursula and I was so pleased that the publishers of

her work and her estate supported me in that effort.

I was also happy that the classically trained guitarist, composer and musical storyteller

Marisa Anderson joined me to play some stunning musical accompaniment.

And after the story, I was joined by the Portland-based writer, activist and scholar,

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