Podcastle, Episode 922 for Tuesday the 16th of December 2025.

A long tango across a canopy of whispering leaves by Anita Harris Sacco-nananan.

Read by Chang Yon-Y, produced by Eric Valdez and rated PG.

Good morning, good day, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Eric Valdez, and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment, a long

tango across a canopy of whispering leaves by Anita

Harris, Zachonanthan, and read by Chang Yun Yi.

This story was previously published in Gigonadosaurus, June 1, 2020.

Anita Harris, Zachunanthan is an author, poet, and post-colonial Gothic scholar, who exists

in a perpetual state of Unheimlish.

Anita writes Gothic fiction, cyberpunk, nerdcore post-apocalyptic fiction, planetary romance,

and various other forms of hyphenated weird fiction.

Anita's publishing credits include Clark's World, Beneath Siceless Skies, Strange Horizons,

and The Dark.

Yun Yi is a fifth-generation Malaysian Chinese who speaks four different languages, all of them poorly,

and is still a disappointment to their family, friends,

and cow for not speaking another two more dialects.

They intend to redeem themselves by learning how to eat chili.

Only time will tell if they are successful in this endeavor.

Now, pay attention.

For our tale is about to begin, and all the old cues will come back to you if you listen.

A long tango across a canopy of whispering leaves.

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