Soudapod, episode 987 for August 1st, 2025.

Reflections on Bloody Mary by Catherine McLeod, narrated by Christiana Ellis, hosted by Kat Day, audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hey everyone, hope you're doing okay.

I'm Kat, Deputy Editor at Sudapod, your host for this week,

and I'm excited to tell you that for this week we have Reflections on Bloody Mary by

Catherine McLeod.

This story is a Sudapod original.

Nova Scotian writer Catherine McLeod loved ghost stories, birdsong, tango and mocha.

Her publications include short fiction in nightmare, black static, on-speck and several

anthologies, including fearful symmetries and the year's best science fiction and fantasy.

And your narrator this week is Christina Ellis, who is an award-winning writer and podcaster,

currently living in Massachusetts. Her podcast novel, Nina Kimberly the Messalus,

was an inaugural nominee for the 2006 Parsec Award for Best Speck Cemetery Fiction Long Form.

Cristiana is also the writer, producer and star of Space Casey, a 10-part audio drama miniseries,

which won the Goldmark Time Award for Best Science Fiction Audio production by the American Society

for Science Fiction Audio, and the 2008 Barsoc Award for for Science Fiction Audio and the 2008 Barsick Award for

Best Science Fiction Audio Drama. Her most recent novel, Phyllis Exposito Interdimensional Private

Eye, is now available as both print and ebook. All her work can be found at christiana ellis.com. Before we go any further, this story

contains references to coercive control, spousal abuse and alcoholism. And now we have a story

for you and we promise you. It's true.

Reflections on Bloody Mary by Catherine McLeod.

Narrated by Christiana Ellis.

...