R.F. Kuang's Making Space
Teen Creeps
Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week Kelly and Katai read MAKING SPACE by R.F. Kuang, a short story for Amazon's Time Traveler's Passport series about a woman finding a boy in the woods, bringing him home, and her terrible husband being terrible. They talk A LOT about Goodreads reviewers NOT GETTING IT, the nuance of intersectional apologies, not engaging with material you know you will hate, there being lines in the sand on opinions, and how this story broke their hearts and they loved it.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the podcast, R.F. Quangs, making space. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, welcome to Teen Creeps, the podcast that discusses YAA Pulp Fiction and More. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm one of your host, Lindsay Ketai. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm another one of your host, Kelly Nugent. |
| 0:26.2 | And today we are talking about the short story, Making Space by R.F. Quang, who, as I'm sure you well know, wrote the Poppy Wars. Uh, series, Babble. |
| 0:38.6 | And the new one, um, just looks, sounds really good. I really want to read it. Yeah. We should cover it when we have time to read a very long book. Yes, yes. Um, but it looks so good. Yeah. I mean, she's just, I really, really like her. She did yellow face. Oh, yeah. Yellow face, of course. Which I love Yellowface. |
| 0:52.8 | And she's, she is so good. |
| 0:56.1 | Because speaking of Yellowface and this book. Yeah, in yellow face, of course. Which I love yellow face. And she's, she is so good. |
| 0:56.0 | Because speaking of yellow face and this book, at writing from the perspective of a privileged |
| 1:01.5 | white person that doesn't understand, they know they're privileged, but they're like, yeah, but like. |
| 1:09.0 | What's this? |
| 1:09.8 | But this character is so interesting. Yes. Like, she's, I mean, she's not at all like the yellow. No, no, no. She's not trying to steal a Asian woman's manuscript. And she, like, race comes into it very little just in that moment where she's. I loved that line, though. That was so interesting. Such a good line. Yeah. She's so good. Okay, let me briefly read... The shouldopsis. The Shedopsish. Shed-upshish. Jess desperately wants to be a mother, so when she discovers a young boy lost in the woods near her home, her heart goes out to him. The boy who Jess and her husband called Buddy can't tell them his name or anything about his family, but he's clearly been through a lot. When her husband cautions her not to get too involved, Jess brushes him off. She would do anything for this child, and soon she'll have to prove it. And this is part of the time traveler's passport, which is a collection of short stories. |
| 2:01.9 | And hers is one of them. |
| 2:05.4 | Her husband's name is Chris, I believe. |
| 2:10.6 | Whatever his name is, I hate him. |
| 2:13.6 | Oh, deeply. |
| 2:14.3 | So very much. |
| 2:15.0 | Ooh, ooh. |
| 2:15.9 | Pit in my belly. |
| 2:16.8 | Like just as soon as he has that reaction when she brings buddy in, I was like, uh, villain. |
| 2:23.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:23.6 | Villain, villain. |
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