Strong As StoneAuthor:
Effie SeibergNarrator:
Eliza ChanHost:
Marguerite KennerAudio Producer:
Jeremy CarterOriginally published in the Monsters and Masks issue of
Veux Magazine (October 2013)
The full text is published on the new Cast of Wonders website! Check it out!Click here to listen to Episode 278Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer. Her stories can be found in the “Women Destroy Science Fiction!” special edition of Lightspeed Magazine, Galaxy’s Edge, Analog, and Fireside Fiction, amongst others, as well as on PodCastle and Escape Pod.
Effie lives in San Francisco. She likes to make sculpted cakes and bad puns. You can follow her on twitter at
@effies, or read more of her work at
effieseiberg.com.
Eliza Chan is a Scottish-Chinese writer published in Fantasy Magazine, Fox Spirit’s Asian Monsters, Persistent Visions and Mithila Review. She writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and madwomen in the attic, but preferably all three at once.
I thought Halloween would be different. The one day where I could go out and run around with kids my age, and be myself – truly myself, with nothing to hide. I was right, but not in the way that I thought.
For you see, I’m made of stone. My skin is rough granite, my teeth are like river-washed pebbles, my hair crystalline gypsum. I’m streaked in grays and whites and browns. All the races of the world shoot through my palms and ankles and stomach. I am the melting pot, where the stones of the earth liquefy and boil together.
The doctors don’t know what it is.
The introduction gives the incorrect episode number - please forgive the error. Looks like Marguerite has been time travelling again...
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