My name is Jane, and I can make you do whatever I want. If you think I’m going to say ‘just kidding!’ think again. My wish is also my command. Being chronically ill means you have the best seat on the perpetual struggle bus. Thanks to the very sexy diagnosis of end-stage kidney disease I was always missing out: on my dream writing career, finding love (bah humbug, but one can hope…right?)…even literally missing my daily train to get to work because I’d trip and fall on my cane. Classic Jane: basketcase. But thanks to a black-market kidney donation giving me mysterious powers, the tables have turned. Now I get drinks on the house, dates whenever I want them, writing opportunities that actually pay the bills… for the first time, people take me seriously. Because I make them. The downside? (There always is one.) Keeping the truth hidden. That’s where my new crew comes in: individually, we’re a bunch of freaks with secrets no one in our lives can know, but together, we’re the ones finally running the show...
https://www.realm.fm/shows/power-trip
Introducing Bitches on Comics
This week, we would like to introduce you to Bitches on Comics, another podcast distributed by Realm.
We talk to Carmen Maria Machado about her memoir In the Dream House, her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, and her graphic novel that absolutely rules The Low, Low Woods! We discuss the relationship between reality and speculative fiction, how trauma and abuse form us and who we choose to be in the aftermath, and the nature of being queer creatives. Plus, writing in different genres! Shirley Jackson! Haunted houses! Oh my!
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