On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about character deaths in fiction. In other words: MURDERRRRRRRRR. The tentpoles this week are "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" by Synecdochic, the first Hunger Games movie, and "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan. (Warning: Spoilers!)

What We’ve Been Reading

A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy War

For Next Time:

Due to the fact that the audio for the witches episode was HAUNTED, we are swapping the topics for Episodes 26 and 27. Despite what we said in the audio of this episode, next week's theme will therefore be about having sex with aliens and monsters, and the tentpole for that episode is the movie "The Shape of Water".

The transcript of this episode is available here. The highest of fives to our scribes this week: Neharika, Millie, and Kelly!