Featuring stories written and read by Nancy Li, Georgia Manuela Delgado, Shareeka Helaluddin (AKKA), Victoria Manifold, Zacha Rosen, and Samuel Luke.

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SUTHERLAND — Nancy Li

Nancy Li is a Sydney animator who you can find on Instagram. Sutherland was originally published in UTS’ Vertigo.

Sutherland was originally read live at comics reading night Read to Me, whose next event is July 2nd.

Find out more about the memorial park IRL.

MI FAMILIA AND OTHER PIGS — Georgia Manuela Delgado; read by Shareeka Helaluddin

Mi Familia and Other Pigs was originally published in Mascara Literary Review. You can read it there.

The story was highly commended in the Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2017. The 2019 competition opens really soon in August. You’ll be able to enter here.

Georgia can be found on Twitter. Shareeka is also known as AKKA from FBi’s Dance Class and you can listen to AKKA on Soundcloud. She’ll also be reading some of her own work at the free, upcoming and recommended Sahra Salon at Parramatta Artist Studios, on July 25th.

Thanks to Mascara editor Michelle Cahill for originally linking us up with this story.

Songs from Mi Familia and Other Pigs:

Loucura — Mariza

Old Stack O’Lee Blues — Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five

GHOST EMOJI — Victoria Manifold

Victoria Manifold is a Sydney-based author of many things, and you can follow her work via Instagram. Ghost Emoji was originally published in her zine collection of short stories Tired Bodies.

Songs from Ghost Emoji:

Corporate World — The Dust Brothers (Fight Club Soundtrack)

Something I Can Never Have — Vitamin String Quartet (Westworld Season 1 Soundtrack)

MURDERER! — Zacha Rosen

Zacha Rosen is a Sydney writer and radio maker, who swears he didn’t do it.

COMFORTABLE — Samuel Luke

You can read original comic of Comfortable on Samuel’s website. This week’s episode artwork was part of that comic. It beautiful, and recommended.

There are also a lot of his other comics there, and on Instagram.

Comfortable was also first read at Read to Me in Sydney.

Intro, interstitial and outro music:

Musica Poetica I: Gassenhauer — Carl Orff (Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Der Kammerchor der staatlichen Hochschule für Musik, München, Fritz Schieri, Stuttgarter Sprechchor, Godela Orff-Büchtemann & Instrumental Ensemble)

Las Armas del DF [Guns of Brixton Cumbia Style] — Nahuatl Sound System

Episode art by Samuel Luke. Show art by Annie Hamilton.

 

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