Podcastle, Episode 886 for Tuesday the 8th of April in the year 2025.

Pui the Archer Fights the Sun by Cynthia Jean,

read by Curtis Chen and produced by Eric Waldez, rated PG-13.

Hello, hello, and Kharibu, which means welcome in Swahili.

I am Shengar and Jari Kagunda and today at Podcastle I have taken over from our usual exceptional host, Matt Dovey.

I am so excited to present today's delightful story to you all.

Hui Archer Fights the Sun, written by Cynthia Zhang, and narrated by Curtis Chen, is a podcastle original.

Cynthia Zhang is a part-time writer, occasional academic. Hodcastle original.

Cynthia Jean is a part-time writer, occasional academic, and full-time dog lover currently based in Los Angeles.

Her novel, after the Dragons, was published with Stully Form Press in 2021 and was shortlisted

for the 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Award in Fiction, as well as the

2022 Utopia Awards in the category of Utopian novella. Their work has appeared in

trans lunar travelers lounge, pseudopod, kaleidoscope, on-spec, phantom drift, and other venues.

They can be found online at CZ underscore writes on Twitter or CZ writes on blue sky.

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen now writes stories near Portland, Oregon.

He's the award-winning author of a best-selling kangaroo series of funny science fiction, spy thrillers,

and the lead writer for Realm's Echo Park podcast.

Visit him online at Curtis C.chen.com.

Now, get ready for the beginning of our tale. Hoi, the Archer Fights the Sun, by Cynthia Zhang, narrated by Curtis C. Chen.

I, Hoi, the Archer, says one bright August afternoon, when the thermometers hit 103,

and the teenagers crack eggs on the sidewalk to see if they fry,

"'Am going to fight the sun!'

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