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Sudapod, episode 990, for August 22nd, 2025.

Hearts and Half Measures by Cassiopeia Gatman.

Narrated by Jess Lewis, hosted by Scott Campbell, audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hey everyone, hope you're doing okay.

I'm Scott, Assistant Editor Sudapod, your host for this week, and I'm excited to tell you about this week, which we have Hearts and Half Measures

by Cassiopeia Gatmaeton.

This story is the Sudapod original.

Cassiopea is a queer fiction writer and poet from the Philippines.

Their work has appeared in, or forthcoming from Uncharted Magazine, the Mekong Review,

Death in the Mouth, and elsewhere.

Their works engage with hauntings in the haunted, folklore and history, the Gothic and the

grotesque, and the anticolonial.

When not writing, they can be found tending to their garden full of tropical

orchids. Find them an X at Laguna Bay Fables. Your narrator, Jess Lewis, is a trans-noninary

pansexual writer, designer, and voice actor who hails from the hollers of western North

Carolina. They currently live in the deep

south where they explore futures of liberation and how to get there. When they're not imagining

weird, queer, clify utopias designing future tech or facilitating capacity-building workshops,

they're organizing programming with their local queer community

and the Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird. Their work has appeared in a range

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