Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast episode 348. The Drabble

cast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by

strange authors to strange listeners, such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

This week we bring you double-headed 16, two great stories by one fantastic author. The author we're featuring in

double-headed special number 16 is Leanne Yim with two original stories called

A Forest Grew and Bath House Fish.

Lianne lives in San Francisco, where she co- edits the speculative literary journal The Golden Key.

Her works appeared in places like The Nation, Nanofiction, New Haven Review, Toasted Cake,

and Vers Cracken.

And we're happy to have her here

with her first appearance on the travel cast.

So without further ado, we bring you a forest grew followed by bathhouse fish by Leanne Yem. It is 5 a.m. and all across town the shops are finally closing.

When we step outside the pub there are a lot of police on the streets milling around seemingly without purpose

moving the way that big fish do in a shallow pond.

They warn us that foot traffic through the town is no longer allowed at this time, and then they follow us to make

sure we get off the streets.

Now what?

None of us wants to return to our bed sit.

Here, gathered under the street lamp, Yazz share something she heard on the train from the

previous leg of our expedition. Nearby, there is an unmapped, unofficial forest.

We decide to cab part of the way and then hike the rest of the distance.

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