Podcastle, Episode 902 for Tuesday, the 29th of July 2025.

Godzilla as a young man named Mike by E.M. Foulds.

Read by Eliza Chan and produced by Devin Martin.

Rated PG-13 with a content note for ableist attitudes.

Hello, and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your guest host for this episode,

Devin Martin. I've been your guest editor for Disability Pride and Magic this month,

and I hope you've enjoyed it. It's been an immense honour to bring these five stories to you.

I am also, as you may already know, from previous episodes, stepping into the role of

editor more permanently, trying to fill the shoes of our beloved Eleanor R. Wood as co-editor

alongside Wunini Kamamia. Eleanor's off on exciting adventures and will be sorely missed

around these ramparts. While the circumstances are extremely unfair and I'd really much rather Eleanor could stay with us,

I'm thrilled to be joining Juanini at the helm.

With all of that out of the way, I'm incredibly proud to present our final story for this special month,

a podcastle original.

Godzilla as a young man named Mike by E.M. Folds.

EM Folds is an Australian who now calls Scotland her home.

She's an ADHD hot mess who has somehow been published in

Strange Horizons, Parsec and Shoreline of Infinity magazines, co-edited the

Gallus anthology with her writing group the Glasgow S.F. Writers Circle and won the

2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. She was teased for being

weird as a child and now realizes that was always her best feature.

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