Podcast on Episode 912, A Tale from the Vault for Tuesday the 7th of October 2025.

The Tanuki kettle by Yuji Foster, read by Tina Connolly and produced by Eric Valdez.

Rated G. Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and good evening.

And welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Mike Dovey and it is my pleasure to present for your enjoyment a tale from the deepest part of our vaults

where the dust nesters and the chill soaks deep. Previously run as episode 28, 17 whole

years ago, today's story is the Tanuki Kettle by Yuji Foster, narrated by Tina Connolly.

Before we ran it then, it was first published in Cricket magazine. by Yuji Foster, narrated by Tina Connolly.

Before we ran it then, it was first published in Cricket magazine.

Now you will, if I have completed my rituals of heruspicy correctly prior to this recording,

have heard an advert at the start of this episode for the first time, barred the odd very carefully selected thing from friends of EA in the past.

This is in response to both the collapse of arts funding opportunities for 501

non-profits that we were working towards until the US Presidency got tangoed again,

and to the results of our last EA audience survey, where the majority

of folks said that, on balance, they didn't mind ads if it helped us keep the lights on, so long

as they didn't interrupt the story. And they won't, they never will. You'll just get them

at the start and end. If you'd prefer not to hear them at all, though, there is an ad-free RSS feed available for your podcatcher if you back the Escape Artist Patreon at the $7 tier and above.

You can sign up for that at patreon.com slash EA Podcasts.

Uji Foster, December 30th, 1971 until September 27, 2014, was an American short story writer,

columnist and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book

anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic

Madison Show and Interzone.

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