PodCastle 942: TALES FROM THE VAULTS: Burning Season
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4.6 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Author : C. L. Clark Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Wanini Kimemiah Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie Previously ran as episode 519 as a PodCastle Original Rated PG-13 Burning Season By C. L. Clark It was burning season in Rashid. Again. Even in the shop, I could smell the smoke. Can you believe I […]
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| 0:00.0 | Podcastle, Episode 942 for Tuesday, the 5th of May, 2026. |
| 0:19.6 | This week's episode is A Tales from the Vault, Burning Season by C.L. Clark, read by Khalida |
| 0:26.6 | Muhammad Ali and produced by Wilson Fowley and Peter Adrian Beravish, rated PG-13 with content |
| 0:33.7 | notes for state kidnapping, physical violence and murder. Good morning, good day, good |
| 0:40.9 | afternoon and good evening. Welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction. |
| 0:47.4 | It is my privilege to present for your enjoyment, burning season by C.L. Clark, narrated by Khalida Muhammad Ali. |
| 0:55.9 | This story is a podcast for original, first published on April 24, 2018. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm your host for today and your co-editor, Wanini Kimemiya. |
| 1:08.2 | I have been excited and honestly, a little nervous to be making my debut as an episode host. |
| 1:16.7 | I thought it would be a treat to look through the vaults and bring two of podcastles former |
| 1:24.0 | co-editors with me and have a little co-editor extravaganza the author of today's |
| 1:29.7 | incredible story c l clark is a former podcast for editor dubbed the patron saint of |
| 1:36.1 | sword lesbians by reactor magazine they are a bFA award-winning editor and the |
| 1:41.5 | nebula nominated author of a few essays, several short stories, and a handful of books, including the Magic of the Lost trilogy, The Unbroken, the novella Fates Bain, and the arcane novel, Ambessa, chosen of the wolf. When they are not imagining the fall of empires, they're trying not to throw their kettlebells through the walls. |
| 2:01.6 | For essays and extras, head to their website, CL Clark Rites.com. |
| 2:07.6 | Khalida Muhammad Ali lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and three children. |
| 2:13.6 | By day, she works as a breast oncology nurse. At all other times, she juggles, |
| 2:20.1 | none too successfully, writing, reading, gaming, and gardening. She has written one novel |
| 2:27.0 | entitled, An Unproductive Woman, Available on Amazon. She has also been published in, or has stories upcoming in, Escape Pod, Diabolical Plots, and Fire. |
| 2:40.0 | Kalida also co-edited Podcastle from 2017 to 2019, where she had a mission to encourage |
| 2:46.1 | more women to submit fantasy stories. |
| 2:49.4 | Of her alter ego, Kay, from the planet Vega, |
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