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Dancing With Ereshkigal by Sameem Siddiqui (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This episode features "Dancing With Ereshkigal" written by Sameem Siddiqui. Published in the May 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_05_21 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0

You are listening to a Clarksrolled magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

0:09.3

Greetings Clarksrolled citizens.

0:10.3

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

0:14.0

This is our fifth story for the month of May 2021 issue 176.

0:21.8

Thank you again for your support.

0:23.8

Please go to patreon.com for the slash ClarksWorld to see how you can offer some monetary support

0:29.2

each and every month.

0:30.8

We offer this podcast for free, but we can't put this together for free, so any help is

0:35.6

appreciated.

0:36.6

And it allows us to do this each and every month for you.

0:40.8

So our story is titled Dancing with the Iruish Kigel and is by Samim Sediki.

0:48.7

Samim Sediki is a speculative fiction writer currently living in the United States.

0:53.5

He enjoys writing to explore the near future realities people of South Asian ancestry

0:58.3

and Muslim heritage, will face in the coming centuries.

1:02.1

His stories explore issues of migration, gender, family structure, economics and space

1:08.2

habitation.

1:09.2

He's attended the tin house and future scapes workshops and his stories have appeared

1:13.8

in ClarksWorld and apparition lit.

1:17.0

Some of Samim's favorite authors include Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia Butler, and Hudrupey

1:22.2

Motorkami.

1:24.0

When he's not writing, Samim enjoys reveling in fatherhood, watching 90 Star Trek and

1:28.9

Tinkering with data and music.

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