ABIGAIL KEMSKE is a writer of weird things and dark forests. She lives near Minneapolis, MN with her spouse, two children, and their two Maine coon cats, Mr. Benedict Flufferbatch and Hades. Her fiction is published in The Saturday Evening Post, The Dark, Apex Magazine, Nature: Futures, Gavagai among other venues. Find her on social media @abigailkemske and online at abigailkemske.com.

this is the story Abigail recommended I read in our recording-it was published late last year in the Saturday Evening Post: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/threaded-lives/

website:

https://www.abigailkemske.com

instagram: @abigailkemske

bluesky: @abigailkemske.bsky.social

If you would like to pick up the anthology Tea or Coffee Stars and Gravity head over here: Air and Nothingness Press.

Thank you:

Theme music:

Pixabay”Space”Astronaut Child freesound

My podcast is now edited entirely by my friend Alejandro Bernard, my dear friend from Ithaca NY. Please check out his other work as a piano teacher and composer.

Ale’s YouTube Channel

Ale’s Patreon

Thank you so much Ale, for giving your talents to this project. I am forever grateful.

Would you like to pre-order the first book I’ve ever released?

My spring poems from 2026 will be in magical, real live, book form, and available to ship on, or before, July 7th, 2026. Creating the cover was very moving for me, and the image is also available as an archival print in three sizes.

If you would like to pre-order this book click here:

The Banquet and Bat Fangs

If you would like a print too, here is the link:(You have the choice of 3 sizes)

PrintIf you could share this wherever you think it would resonate, I would greatly appreciate it.

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