Author Topic: PC469: Ravana’s Children  (Read 3091 times)

Ocicat

  • Castle Watchcat
  • Moderator
  • *****
  • Posts: 3722
  • Anything for a Weird Life
on: May 09, 2017, 08:09:39 PM
PodCastle 469: Ravana’s Children

by Ian Muneshwar
read by Kaushik Narasimhan
hosted by Setsu Uzume
A PodCastle original!

Rated PG-13.

It was the end of a summer that burned through Queens quick as a fever, and Jamie couldn’t sleep. He twisted in his sheets, kicking them to the bottom of the bed, and watched his box fan. The blades made ribbons of the streetlights and cast sharp-sided shadows that chased each other across the walls.

Outside, his parents were fighting.


Click here to read more



Ian Muneshwar is the son of an Indo-Guyanese immigrant. He currently lives in Raleigh, where he’s pursuing an MFA at NC State. You can read more of his work in Clarkesworld Magazine, Gamut, and the anthology An Alphabet of Embers.

Kaushik Narasimhan is a management consultant by day, writer by night and psychonaut every weekend. He tweets at @kazarelth.

Listen to this week’s PodCastle!



Katzentatzen

  • Matross
  • ****
  • Posts: 212
Reply #1 on: May 16, 2017, 12:36:34 AM
I couldn't follow this one at all, the imagery was cool though. I like tales of mortals meeting diminished gods.

"To understand a cat you must realize that he has his own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality."
--LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN