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For everyone who remembers Yudah Cohen and Shaina Rubin from previous original fiction of mine: I am glad to report that they are back! PodCastle has just published my short story Gitl Schneiderman Learns To Live With Her In-Laws, in which Shaina Rubin goes to visit her cousins and encounters star-crossed lesbians, ghostly klezmer, and a wide range of mekhutonim. (The story is the third in a sequence, but should stand alone; both this one and the previous story are narrated in audio format by Barbara Krasnoff.)

I have spent several years trying to write more in this cycle without much success, so I am very grateful to a.) dramaturgca, who kicked half this story loose in my brain by giving me a music meme prompt that ended up translating to a variant on 'klezmer Tam Lin', and b.) reconditarmonia, my Yuletide recipient, who kicked the other half loose by prompting me to write about lesbian fiddlers. Also, and always, to aquamirage, whose beautiful Shaina Rubin fanart inspires me every day.