PseudoPod 1023: Grandifolia
PseudoPod
Escape Artists Foundation
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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W: Emotional control, intimate partner abuse ‘Grandifolia’ is a PseudoPod original The first time I do everything the way I’m supposed to. I wait for the new moon and walk into the woods at midnight. I carry a jar of pig’s blood and wear a wreath of nettles, ignoring as best I can the stinging on my scalp. I tread silently, carefully, one bare foot settling deep into the dirt…
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| 0:00.0 | When you looked away, the chalkboard was blank. |
| 0:02.9 | When you look back, someone or something has written on it. |
| 0:08.4 | SudaPod is a horror podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | This will be your last warning. |
| 0:14.0 | Sudapod is made by humans and intended for human listeners, |
| 0:17.6 | because the short version of my name is Al, not AI. |
| 0:25.3 | SulaPod, episode 1023 for April 3, 2026. |
| 0:31.9 | Grandifolia by Elliot Gish, narrated by Kitty Sarkozy, hosted by Cat Day, audio production by Graham Dunlop. |
| 0:41.7 | Hey everyone, hope you're doing okay. I'm Kat, co-editor at Sudapod, your host for this week, |
| 0:47.0 | and it's Good Friday, so happy Easter. We don't have eggs for you, but we do have Grandifolia |
| 0:53.3 | by Elliot Gish, and this story is a |
| 0:56.7 | pseudapod original. Elliot Gish is a writer and librarian from Nova Scotia. Her short |
| 1:04.5 | fiction has appeared in Dark Matter magazine, the ex-puritan, Grain Magazine, the Baltimore Review and many others. |
| 1:12.4 | Her debut novel, Grey Dog, ECW Press, 2024, was shortlisted for the Edmund |
| 1:18.7 | Dwight Award for debut fiction and the Cobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. |
| 1:25.5 | Elliot lives in Halifax with her wife and a small black cat who may or may not be her |
| 1:31.2 | familiar. |
| 1:33.5 | And your narrator this week is Kitty Sarkozy, a speculative fiction writer, actor, and |
| 1:39.3 | robot girlfriend. |
| 1:41.1 | Kitty is an alumnus of Superstars Writing Seminar, a member of the Apex Writers Group |
| 1:47.0 | and the Horror Writers Association. Several large cats allow her to live with them in Marietta, Georgia, |
| 1:53.8 | where she enjoys tending the extensive gardens where she hides the bodies. For a list of her publications, acting credits, or to engage her services on your next project, |
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