Lightning has struck pseudopod towers once again, and as every week, something horrifying slouches towards your ears, waiting to be heard.

What follows is horror to the core.

Proceed only if you wish to be disturbed, as well as entertained.

Sudapod, episode 1002 for November 7th, 2025.

The Squatters by Shauna Yang Ryan, narrated by Rebecca Wey Shear, hosted by Kat Day, audio production by Chelsea Davis.

Hey everyone, hope you'll do okay.

I'm Kat, co-editor at Sudapod, your host for this week, and I'm excited to tell you that for this week we have Squatters by Shauna Yang Ryan.

This story originally appeared in the 2025 anthology, Silk and Sin Yu.

Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese-American author and formerly a creative writing professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Her works include the novels, Water Ghosts and Green Island, which won an American Book Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Best Book Award.

She is now a book coach and editor living in Northern California. We'll put a link to her website in the show notes.

And your narrator this week is Rebecca Wei Cher, who is a Taiwanese American actor, writer,

translator and sensitivity reader based in NYC.

Having grown up across several continents, her work focuses on the interplay between

Asia and the Asian diaspora, gender, queerness and mental illness, and has been featured in outlets

like We Need Diverse Books, Where Your Voice Magazine, Book Riot, and the Dotten Line.

She has a BA in Theatre and Italian Studies from Wesleyan University, and you can find her

attempts to use her liberal arts degree at her website.

Again, link in the show notes.

Now, we have a story for you, and we promise you.

It's true.

The Squatters by Shana Yang Ryan, narrated by Rebecca Wei Shia.

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