Our second piece of audio fiction for June is “If the Mountain Comes” written by An Owomoyela and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 69 - If the Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela [35:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9536)

François and Papa were outside, discussing what to do if the water rose. I was in, scrubbing blood from the walls with a palmful of sand.
That was the summer Enah came to our village. He’d led a donkey, and the donkey pulled a cart with tools, a flowering lilac, and a barrel of fresh water. [...]

Our second piece of audio fiction for July is “Frozen Voice” written by An Owomoyela and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 58 - Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela [30:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10268)

They’ve made us speak Hlerig.
They’ve made us wrestle sounds slippery as fish or burly as bears through our throats. They’ve made us stumble through conversations, even human-to-human, that we can hardly say. We can’t pronounce our names. They named me Ulrhegmk, which in Hlerig means little mountain thing.
My mother [...]