Other Theories of Relativity / Mon pays c'est l'hiver

Toasted Cake 119: Other Theories of Relativity by Nicole J. LeBoeuf, and Mon pays c'est l'hiver by Amal El-Mohtar

Episode #119! In which we leave people and places behind. 

Other Theories of Relativity, by Nicole J. LeBoeuf, is original to Toasted Cake. 

Catastrophe comes and goes in a scattering of instants. 

Mon pays c'est l'hiver, by Amal El-Mohtar, first appeared in Lackington's. 

In a land of noon-darkness and damp, of mornings that sway between syrup-bright and pigeon-grey and evenings of thick velvet, a traveller feels a tug at the hook in her heart. 

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Nicole J. LeBoeuf is a New Orleanian writer living in Boulder, Colorado, where she learned to fly single-engine propeller aircraft, use a spinning wheel, and skate roller derby. Other stories of hers appear in the anthology Blood and Other Cravings and in NaMeL3ss Magazine. Her website is nicolejleboeuf.com. 

Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poems and very short fiction written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. She plays the harp, is a member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours, edits an online quarterly of fantastic poetry called Goblin Fruit, and currently lives in Glasgow with two Jellicle cats and their pet Glaswegian. 

Original airdate: August 24, 2014