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Sudapod Episode 746 February 26 2021

Rattlesnake Song by Josh Roundtree

Hello, I'm Scott Campbell, an associate editor here at Sudapod on your host this week.

Yes, I am hosting again.

I know I'm surprised as you are, but one does not question the wisdom of the great and

terrible tentacles of Sudapod Towers, ever.

This week's story is Rattlesnake Song, written by Josh Roundtree, which first appeared

in July 2019 in the anthology Triangulation Dark Skies.

Josh Roundtree's short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including

Benet Seasless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, Daily Science Fiction, and a punk rock future.

His work has received honorable mention in both the year's best fantasy and horror and

the year's best science fiction.

Fairwood Press will publish his new short fiction collection Fantastic Americana this summer.

Your narrator is Jariish Dernette, who is a middleman, a village, a little child, living

in the middle of the United States.

After living most of his life in such exotic locations as Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi

and Tennessee, he relocated to Chicago land where he spends time working in corporate

America.

Jariish is a lifelong skeptic who loves reading stories of fantasy in the paranormal, both

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