Podcastle, Episode 879 for Tuesday the 18th of February 2025.

The Tallish Island Songbook of the Dead by E.N. Lyndon, read by Louise

Hewitt and produced by Eric Valdez. PG-13 content mornings for grief, infant death, and a reference

to suicide.

Good morning, good day, good afternoon, good evening, and welcome to Podcastle, the flying castle of fantasy fiction.

Your usual host, the incredible Matt Dovey, has tagged me in for this week. My name is Alastair Stewart, and it is my privilege to present for your

enjoyment the Tallish Island Songbook of the Dead by E.M. Linden, narrated by Louise Hewitt. This

story is a podcastle original and is audio produced for you by the incredible Mr. Eric Valdez.

E.M. Linden is a specfic writer who lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and loves coffee, ghosts,

owls, and the sea. Her work has appeared in places such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands,

Flashfiction online, and the Locust Recommended Reading List. She is online at emlinden.blog

or on Blue Sky.

As is always the case, we will make sure the appropriate links are in both the post on our website and the show notes.

Your narrator this week is Louise Hewitt.

Louise is enthusiastic about stories in all their forms.

She is an advertising copywriter by day, a reader of bedtime stories in the evening, and a D&D dwarf cleric at the weekends as the best sort.

Lou to her friends, she enjoys cooking up a storm, riding her bike in the rain, feeding ducks, doing yoga, and attempting to meditate.

Her favorite stories are about dragons, but pirates and sea serpents are also good.

She lives in London, UK, with her partner, her child on alternate weeks, and a Stories are about dragons, but pirates and sea serpents are also good.

She lives in London, UK, with her partner, her child on alternate weeks and a very large ginger

cat.

And now pay attention because the tide is rising.

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