Podcast Episode 38: Inclement Weather

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast. It's me, your still-reeling host, Michael J. DeLuca. This will be our final episode of 2024, and I am afforded an unusual opportunity in that I'm actually recording this the week it'll be released instead of months in advance. Things may very well have changed a great deal by the time I get to do this again, so let me just say a very few words. Please don't capitulate in advance the way all the billionaire-captured corporate media already seem to be doing daily. If you can help it, please don't support entities that do. Please consider the advice of Fred Rogers: look for the helpers. Specifically: look around you, find the nearest helper, take them warmly by the hand, and help them however you can. Thank you. Today we have for you Susan L. Lin reading her flash fiction piece, "Inclement Weather", from Reckoning 7. It's a story narrated by the earth itself, the soil, and it's about dealing with loss, grief, and catastrophic change, finding the resources to change with it. It ends with the COVID-19 pandemic, but I think those last lines apply exactly as well to this current moment as they did then. Susan: Hi. I'm Susan L. Lin, and I'm going to be reading "Inclement Weather", my flash fiction piece that was inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Inclement Weather by Susan L. Lin