Podcastle, Episode 880 for Tuesday the 25 February 2025.

Kiki Hernandez Beets the Devil by Samantha Mills, read by

Sandra Espinoza and produced by Peter Adrian Berravesh and Devin Martin. Rated PG-13.

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

I'm your host, Matt Dovey and it is my delight to deliver for your enjoyment, freshly retrieved from the dust-filled vaults beneath that castle where your name is whispered by things that aren't truly there.

Kiki Hernandez Beets the Devil by Samantha Mills,

narrated by Sandra Espinoza.

This story first ran here is episode 639 in August 2020,

was first published in Transluna Travelers Lounge before that in February 2020.

Happy five-year birthday, little story.

Important note, before we kick off, we open to general submissions this Saturday, March 1st, for the whole month.

So if you've got a fantasy story you'd love to hear read out for all the serfs and peasants

of the castle, send it in.

Usual rules apply vis-a-vis fantasy stories up to 6k, original or reprints, and you can send one of each in at a time. If a story does get rejected, you can send another of that type in straight away if we're still open, so the sooner you submit your first, the more chance you have of sending in another. The key for this window is separate to the

special Disability Pride Submissions window too. So if you've already sent something in for that,

you can still disappear, and vice versa if you're still polishing up something for that call,

which is also open through the end of March. And the most important rule of all, don't self-reject.

You never know what will catch the heart of our editors and you won't ever know if you don't self-reject. You never know what will catch the heart of our editors

and you won't ever know if you don't try.

We've been the debut publication

for so very many folk over the past 17 years

and we could very well be yours, so please.

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