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Podcast: Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
Episode: Built on a Dream by Anne Watson, Music performed by Earle Peach
Description: This week, we honor Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s story uses three voices—a house, narrator and historian—and music to tell the stories of generations of people from a town in the Deep South of the US. Yes, it is a tale of bigotry and racism at the micro and macro scales. But also hope and determination to make a better world and a better life. It’s a beautiful example of how ghost stories can change our own stories, the course of history, and our dreams.Anne Watson has been writing, in one form or another...