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PodCastle 391: In the Rustle of Pages
* Author : Cassandra Khaw
* Narrator : Anaea Lay
* Host : Graeme Dunlop
* Audio Producer : Peter Wood
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First appeared in Shimmer Magazine. Read it here!
Rated PG
In the Rustle of Pages
by Cassandra Khaw
In the armoire beside the marital bed sleeps a chronology of her husband’s metamorphosis: scans inventorizing the tiling on the walls of his heart, the stairwells budding in his arteries. For all of the hurt it conjures, Li Jing thinks his metamorphosis beautiful, too.