PseudoPod 383: Blood Women
- Author : Usman T. Malik
- Narrator : Saladin Ahmed
- Host : Alasdair Stuart
- Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop
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“Blood Women” first appeared in Chiral Mad 2 edited by Michael Bailey. This podcast is Usman’s first ‘reprint’ sale. The story made Ellen Datlow‘s Summation of 2013 for Best Horror of the Year Six. Usman has long felt the absence of Pakistani writers in speculative fiction, especially in horror and dark fantasy. The country has a solid tradition in the genre, rarely seen in the west. He hopes that will change in the next few years as more Pakistani and South Asian writers begin publishing regularly in western spec-fic markets.
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Blood Women by Usman T. Malik“You could see the blood women standing under the banyan trees any evening. All you needed was the right blink,” Haider said.
This is the way we did it: we circled the graveyard three times, for three is the godly number. Haider on his father’s bicycle, me on my brother’s red and white Made-in-Pakistan tall rider, and ten-year-old Zareen on her three-wheeler clattering over stones, bird bones, and dry branches.
“Ready?” Haider would say, his eyes black as apple seeds.
We nodded, and together we blinked.
The blood women were not there.
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