The label shifts into view rattles unsettlingly, something skitters inside.

The label shifts into view 8th, 2023.

Dwen by Susan Palumbo.

Narrated by Mercedes Modeste, hosted by Amanda Weiss,

audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hey everyone, welcome to a new episode of Pseudopod.

My name is Amanda Weiss and I am associate Professor of Japanese at Georgia Tech and editor of

Highmine magazine. I'm also very happy to be your host this week. Our story is Duen by

Susan Palumbo. This story was originally published in The Dark magazine and reprinted in the 2023 collection, Skin Thief.

Susan Palumbo is a Trinidadian, Canadian,ative Fiction writer and Editor.

Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy Awards.

She also co-founded the Ignite Awards with L.D. Lewis and edited the Strange Horizons Caribbean issue with

Marika Bailey. Her Dark Fantasy Horror Collection, Skin Thief, Stories, was

published by Neon Hemlock in 2023. Her Novella Countess will be published by E.C.W. Press in 2024.

Her work has been featured in the Dark magazine, Light Speed, Nightmare, and Pseudopod.

When she isn't writing, she can be found listening to New Wave, sketching, or wandering in her

local Misty Forest.

Find her on Instagram at Gothic Synic syntax and on her website at

Susan Palumbo dot wordpress.com

she is officially represented by Michael Curry of the Donald Mass literary agency

Mercedes Modeste is not the well-known bends, however she is driven by creativity. This young woman from the

beautiful Caribbean is a finance student by day, storyteller and poet by night.

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