This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome longtime friend of the show Laura Blackwell! Laura reads to us from her very very trunked story, “Poor Prisoners,” which leads us into a wide-ranging discussion of things we wish we’d learned sooner, writers whose work we admire, and kindness to our past selves.   Things we mention in this episode:   Story Hour LiveJournal Dreamwidth Macey’s Murderboard episode All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks Quaker Spec Fic issue AO3 Omegaverse The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley Grimms’ Fairy Tales Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles Homers The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles Paradise Lost, by John Milton Translation State and the Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz The Mütter Museum Ivy’s episode Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, Yellow Jessamine, and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling Megan E. O’Keefe Megan’s first episode Steve Toase Amanda Cook Jo Miles SFWA HWA Premee Mohamed She Walks in Shadows, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles Beneath the Rising, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed System Collapse, by Martha Wells Yuletide (fic exchange) The Red River of the north Lake Agassiz Marie Brennan Martha Wells Ursula Vernon Chuck Tingle Sarah Gailey Hugo Awards thing Stoker Awards Edenville, by Sam Rebelein Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle Hellraiser Death Note manga, netflix, and anime Potato chip eating scene Death Note: The Musical Laura’s website, bluesky, twitter, insta, mastodon   Join me next month when I’ll be talking to John Wiswell and Ivy Fox