Hi folks, this is Alistair. Content warnings this week for cancer and bereavement.

Sudapod, episode 961, February 7th, 2025. This week's story, Body Heat by Mary Glass and Darling,

narrated by Lynne's MacLeod, hosted by Alastair-Stuart, with audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hi folks, welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror fiction podcast. I'm Alistair, your host,

and this week's story comes to us from Mary Glass and Darling, and it's a Sudapot original.

Mary, Glass and Darling lives and writes in Glasgow, Scotland, where she moved from Alaska.

She has received a notable essay in Best American Essays, and a fiction award from intro to journals. Work of hers has appeared in plowshares, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Passages North, and many other literary magazines. She is an avid solo backcountry hiker and mountaineer with a breadth of experience in Alaska, the Appalachians and the Scottish Highlands.

She loves all things weird fiction and is currently working on a horror novel.

Your narrator this week is Lynne's MacLeod.

Linz is a queer working-class Scottish writer and editor who dabbles in the surreal.

Her prose has been published by Apex, Catapult, Sudapod, The Razor, and many more.

Her work includes the short story collection, To Duckin, from Bear Creek Press in 2022, her debut novel Beast Bridget's Gate Press

2023. She is a full member of the SFWA and can be found on Twitter at Lynn's McLeod

or on her website at linsmetloud.com.uk.

So check your gear, take your bearings.

Make sure they're true.

Like this story.

Body Heat by Mary Glass and Darling, narrated by Lins McLeod.

The river is moving too fast, and Cassie knows it, but she crosses anyway.

I see water reaches her waist, a constant push at her knees. She leans into the hiking poles,

inching sideways like a crab. Halfway across, her left boot goes into a hole. For a moment,

Cassie fights, then, slow motion, feels the river

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