PodCastle 928: FLASH FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Things Left Unsaid
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4.6 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Authors : Rachel Gutin, Christina Trujillo and Toshiya Kamei Narrators : Jess Lewis, Sandra Espinoza and Amal El-Mohtar “Peppermint Tea” previously published by Baffling Magazine “Ghosts” previously published in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine. This story was originally titled “Recipe” “Last Word” is a #PodCastleOriginal! Rated G Peppermint Tea by Rachel Gutin Simi huddled in […]
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast on Episode 928 for Tuesday the 27th of January, 2026. |
| 0:16.8 | Things Left Unsaid, a flash fiction extravagananta with stories by Rahel Goutin, Christina |
| 0:22.9 | Entraheo and Dashir Kamei, as read by Jess Lewis, Sandra Espinoza and Amal al-Machal |
| 0:28.9 | respectively, and produced by Eric Valdez. Rated G with a general content note for grief. |
| 0:40.3 | Good morning. Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the flying castle of fantasy fiction. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm your host, Matt Dovey, and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment a triptych of tales on the theme of Things Left Unsaid. |
| 0:55.0 | We're opening with peppermint tea by Rahel Goutin, narrated by Jess Lois, which was first |
| 0:59.7 | published in Baffling magazine, July 2024. |
| 1:04.4 | Rahel Goutin is a writer and special education teacher. |
| 1:07.8 | Her short fiction has appeared in a number of publications including a skatepot, |
| 1:10.9 | cast of wonders and small wonders. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is a member of the |
| 1:15.9 | organising team for Brooklyn speculative fiction writers. You can find her online at |
| 1:20.8 | Rahalgutin. wordpress.com. Jess Lewis is a trans, non-binary and pansexual writer, designer and voice actor who hails from the hollows of Western North Carolina. |
| 1:33.3 | They currently live in the Deep South, where they explore futures of liberation and how to get there. |
| 1:38.3 | When they're not imagining weird, queer, clify utopias, designing future tech or facilitating capacity building workshops, |
| 1:46.0 | they're organising programming with their local queer community and the outer dark symposium on the Greater Weird. |
| 1:52.0 | Their work has appeared in a range of publications, including Solarpunk magazine, hyphenpunk and ColliderTrope. |
| 1:59.0 | You can visit their website at www.quefutures.com and follow them on |
| 2:04.3 | Instagram at Merry Noontide. And now pay attention, for our tale is about to begin, so be sure to sit |
| 2:11.9 | comfortably with your cup. Peppermint Tea by Rahel Kooten, narrated by Jess Lewis. |
| 2:29.4 | Simmy huddled in their borrowed coat and tried not to shiver as they reached for the stuffed roll |
| 2:35.6 | their housemate had set out for them no matter how many down coats and thick woolen sweaters |
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