Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast, episode 404. The Drapol 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.

Sorry for the delay in getting you this episode this week, folks. One of the characters in our story this week has a

Guiche accent and it was a little tougher than I anticipated finding a voice actress with that particular

skill set, you know, all about the authenticity here. It's a great story

though and definitely worth the weight. Before we get started though on our last

story of our themed month, Women and Aliens Month, featuring all original commissioned

stories by women writers about aliens.

Just wanted to give another huge round of thanks to our Associate Editor Sandra O'Dell, who orchestrated the entirety of Women and Aliens Month this year,

and did a fantastic job, I think, securing original commissioned stories from diverse women authors,

and working with them to make them fantastic treats

for your ears. Mucho's gracias Sandra, much gracios indeed.

All right, on with the show. This week we bring you Witches for Mars by Eden Royce.

Eden's a freshwater Guiche from Charleston, South Carolina, now living in the English countryside. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Apex,

FIAT literary magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Fireside Magazine, Podcastle, and Sudopod. Her middle grade southern Gothic historical novel tying the devil's

shoestrings will be published with Walden Pond Press in 2020. Find her at Eden Royce.

And on Twitter at Eden Royce. Our story is read to you by Sarah Days.

As a cultural history interpreter, Sarah's writings and presentations connect past, present, and

future in applicable healing and liberating ways.

Her research and praxis includes Gula Guilla Guilla Gucci women,

womenism, black feminism, Afro-Futurism, sexual freedom, black affirmations, and the power to imagine and manifest

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