Podcast on Episode 927 for Tuesday the 20th of January 2026.

The One Who Carries Abernaki has died by J. Kong Romanus.

Read by John Chu and produced by Eric Valdez.

Rated PG with a content note for drowning.

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 privilege to present for your enjoyment, The One Who Carries Abanaki has died by J. Kang Romanus, narrated by

John Chu.

This story is a podcast original, never before seen, never before heard.

Except by us, of course, and we loved it so much we paid for the right to show it off to all of you.

So we hope you love it too.

And if you love us, of course, don't forget you can

declare your allegiance loud and proud with that necessary evil of geek culture in the contemporary

capitalist age. Merch! Pop on over to our homepage at podcaster.org. Scroll down a little way to

look out for the big, obvious merchandise button on the right side, below the donations

buttons, behind which you can find t-shirts, hoodies and tank tops for your favourite fantasy

podcast launched in 2008 that releases on Tuesdays. It's like a donation to help us keep running,

but also with clothes to keep you warm. Your author, J. Kang Ramanus, is a queer queer, mixed Asian-American author of speculative fiction

that explores the experience of living this intersectionality in worlds not our own.

You can find his other short stories in magazines such as Anathema, Speck from the Margins,

and forthcoming in Colliderotrope, as well as multiple anthologies.

He is also the editor of Dood's Rock, an anthology of speculative fiction celebrating queer

masculinity published in 2025.

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