Episode 49: Suzan Palumbo – ”Fricatives”

This episode’s reading carries a content warning for ableist themes around deafness. If you would like to skip this, skip ahead to the 11-minute mark to bypass the reading.   This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome fellow gremlin Suzan Palumbo (@sillysyntax) to talk about…something. Suzan reads their trunked story, “Fricatives,” which leads us into a discussion about walking away from stories we’ve written that aren’t ours to tell. And then bagged pickles. We do get things back on track, amazingly, and have some great conversation about the place of emotion versus professionalism in writing, the current discourse around so-called “artificial intelligence” (large language models), and the baseball of crying.   Things we mention this episode   “Every Day is Halloween,” by Ministry Joyce Carol Oates “Apolépisi: A De-Scaling,” by Suzan Palumbo Welcome to the Black Parade, by My Chemical Romance Give Up, by The Postal Service Plans, by Death Cab for Cutie Pickle tweets Shut the fuck up Friday Friends at the Table “Bloody Therapy,” by Suzan Palumbo Shimmer Elise Tobler John Wiswell Personal Canons Cookbook Miri’s episode Clarkesworld AI submissions D. Perry’s Resident Evil novels Harley Quinn Poison Ivy “Soup Boys” and “NYC Cops” by Heems “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” by Das Racist “Douen,” by Suzan Palumbo Skin Thief: Stories, by Suzan Palumbo dave ring Cult of the Lamb “Temple,” by River Boy Interview with the Vampire Tell me I’m Worthless, by Alison Rumfitt Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite, by Sergei Prokofiev “The Death of Tybalt,” by Sergei Prokofiev Suzan’s insta, mastodon, and website   Join us next month, when my guests will be Ladz and Brandon O’Brien!