
PseudoPod 858: Flash on the Borderlands LXV: Fecundity
Show Notes
“On the Getting of Husbands and the Spawning of Children” previously appeared in Arsenika in April 2021
“The Chairmaker’s Daughter” is a PseudoPod original
“Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley” is a PseudoPod Original. The story is inspired by the giant flower found in Southeast Asia, canonised into Western science by Thomas Stanford Raffles and Joseph Arnold as Rafflesia arnoldii.
“The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.”
On the Getting of Husbands and the Spawning of Children
by Sophie Sparrow
Deep in the woods, where the sun’s light never reaches to break apart the shadows, through a thicket of brambles and stinging shrubs, there stands a house. It is not made of gingerbread, nor does it walk on chicken’s legs. But it is, for want of a better word, home.