PodCastle 394: Ogres of East Africa

Author : Sofia Samatar Narrators : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali and Troy Wiggins Host : Rachael K. Jones Audio Producer : Peter Wood Discuss on Forums First published in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History from Crossed Genres. Rated PG Ogres of East Africa by Sofia Samatar 2. Ba’ati A grave-dweller from the environs of the […]

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Author : Sofia Samatar
Narrators : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali and Troy Wiggins
Host : Rachael K. Jones
Audio Producer : Peter Wood

Discuss on Forums

First published in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History from Crossed Genres.

Rated PG

2. Ba’ati

A grave-dweller from the environs of the ancient capital of Kush. The ba’ati possesses a skeletal figure and a morbid sense of humor. Its great pleasure is to impersonate human beings: if your dearest friend wears a cloak and claims to suffer from a cold, he may be a ba’ati in disguise.

[Mary arrives every day precisely at the second hour after dawn. I am curious about this reserved and encyclopedic woman. It amuses me to write these reflections concerning her in the margins of the catalogue I am composing for my employer. He will think this writing fly-tracks, or smudges from my dirty hands (he persists in his opinion that I am always dirty). As I write I see Mary before me as she presents herself each morning, in her calico dress, seated on an overturned crate.

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