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I'm your host, this evening, the most containteress of tentacles, an associate editor of

pseudopod, M-M-Shil.

Tonight's author, Fannie Gale, has authored more than two dozen published short stories

and novelettes.

You can find her work at Beneath Seasless Skies, Constellari Tales, and Daily Science Fiction.

Her work has received publication's best of the Net Award, and the Sin Tax and Salt

Editors Award.

She has also been a finalist for multiple Uralis Awards.

Tonight's offering of little freedoms was first published in Shoreline of Affinity in

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