Hello and welcome to the Dabblecast episode 353. The Dabble

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

strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Women and Aliens Month continues here on the decast this week with Primrose or Return to Il-Mariel, by Mary

Mackin.

Mary is a writer and poet living in Northern Michigan.

Her speculative stories and poems have appeared in Pedestal magazine,

Painted Bride Quarterly, New Myths, Apex Magazine, and many other venues.

Her fiction retelling myths and folklore has won the Faulkner Prize for a novel in progress,

a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award, and second place in the Marguerite-McLinn National Prize

for Fiction.

She's currently at work on a novel.

Learn more at Mary McKin.com.

The story is co-read with me by Gabrielle Diqueur.

Gabriel is a Grammy-nominated awardwinning audio producer, director, and narrator.

She's narrated dozens of audio books and is a recipient of multiple audiophile earphones

awards. She's fantastic and everything she touches turns into fantastic, which means you should check

out Sky Boat Media because she's all up in there. Sky Boats a team of media artists and producers

cranking out content, particularly in audio, with pretty much the highest

production values in the Biz. If I lived on the West Coast, I'd be on my knees trying to get in the studio with these folks. Check them out at skyboatmedia.com. Download their

audio books. You'll love it. So without further ado we bring you primrose or

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