"The Wishing Pool" by Tananarive Due

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When Joy revisits her family's old cabin, she's reminded of childhood memories of a pond in the woods and its mysterious powers. For more from Tananarive, check out her works at tananarivedue.com and look for her new novel THE REFORMATORY and graphic novel THE KEEPER, both due out in 2022. Content advisory: Depiction of dementia/illness, brief mention of death

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.
0:10.1	In every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction and read it to you.
0:16.8	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:25.9	I'm back in case you couldn't tell and I am gearing up for season 10.
0:34.3	That's over 100 stories in the proverbial books, y'all.
0:37.6	So if you know someone who isn't listening to the podcast, I mean there are a lot of entry
0:43.8	points there.
0:45.5	In K. Jemisin, anyone?
0:47.6	Neil Gaiman?
0:48.9	For sure.
0:49.9	Ken Liu, if you don't know, you better ask somebody.
0:53.7	Check a mend, an author or an episode to someone who you know will enjoy the podcast.
1:00.9	Anyway, I am so very happy to be back and reading a story today by the master of horror and
1:07.5	speculative fiction, Tanana Rive Du, who you may recall wrote Free Jemisin's mind, which
1:13.5	I read a few years ago.
1:15.4	Tanana Rive is an award-winning author who teaches black, horror, and afro-futurism at UCLA.
1:22.2	She was also an executive producer on Shudder's Ground Breaking Documentary Horror Noir, a history
1:28.5	of black horror.
1:30.4	She has a new novel out in 2022 called The Reformatory.
1:34.6	A ghost story said it a haunted children's prison.
1:38.1	And she's releasing a graphic novel called The Keeper, based on a screenplay she wrote
1:43.3	with Stephen Barnes about a young girl who's dying grandmother, someone's a supernatural
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