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How do other wives do it?

I stay busy with the Ann Arbor Grant Review Programs and the seminar,

saying brightly,

Oh yes, Alan is in Colombia,

setting up a biological pest control program.

Isn't it wonderful?

But inside, I imagine you being surrounded by 19-year-old raven-haired cooing beauties, everyone panting

with social dedication and filthy rich, and 40 inches of bosom busting out of her delicate lingerie.

I even figured it in centimeters. That's 101.6 centimeters of busting.

Oh, darling, darling.

Do what you want, only come home safe.

That is the sort of sensual introduction to the screw fly solution by Recuna Sheldon.

Now, Recuna Sheldon was one of the many pen names of Alice Bradley Sheldon and we're going to talk

about her and this story on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

We're here at H.Podcraft.com and Patreon. I'm Chad Fyfer.

And I'm Chris Lanky.

The Screwfly Solution is a 1977 short story. It was published in Analog.

It's a bit more of a science fiction horror story than a weird tale.

Yeah. It feels almost like a violent Twilight Zone episode in a way. But we have had many

listeners recommend this story to us over the years lots of times and I felt like time to finally

tackle it. And after a couple of months of weird horror I'm definitely down for some science fiction but also there are obvious

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