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[skygiants]

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.

Comments

[nnozomi]

I hadn't run across these before and they are an absolute delight! Shaina's deadpan narration is wonderful, almost making me think of a Litvak Damon Runyan. (For reasons I'm also going to assume that she and I are distant relatives.) Lovely.

[skygiants]

'comparable to Damon Runyan' is just about the highest praise I can imagine, thank you -- I'm so glad you enjoyed them! (I certainly would not tell you otherwise. :D)

[aamcnamara]

This story is such a delight and I am glad to see it published!

[skygiants]

Thank you so much again for being an early reader, crit comments were absolutely invaluable for getting it into shape! <3

[rymenhild]

I am so excited by more of them because I love them! ...but I don't have the auditory processing to encounter new stories in pod format. Is there any chance of getting a written copy?

[minutia_r]

There's a text version at the same link! (Source: I just read it)

[skygiants]

As minutia_r said, there is a text version at the link, but if you'd like a .doc version for whatever reason I would be happy to send it -- just let me know. :D

[sovay]

PodCastle has just published my short story Gitl Schneiderman Learns To Live With Her In-Laws

Mazel tov! Also, excellent narrator.

[skygiants]

Thank you!!! I was very much hoping Barbara Krasnoff would be willing to be the voice of Shaina again and I'm so delighted she agreed.

[eglantiere]

oh! that was you! i really likes those stories, and had no idea. congrats on a new story!

[skygiants]

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoy them! :D

[oracne]

Congratulations!

[skygiants]

Thank you!!

[chestnut_pod]

So excited! Mazal tov on the publication, and I can't wait to listen.

[skygiants]

Thank you!! I hope you enjoy!

[seekingferret]

Yay! More!

I particularly loved the moment when R' Cohen for one second got serious about what it meant to be disowned by your family, and then immediately turned it into a joke again. Heartbreaking and brilliant.

[skygiants]

Thank you so much, I'm so glad that worked for you!!

[seekingferret]

Also I somehow missed it when reading the story, but I caught Congregation Ze'ev when listening to Barbara read it and I'm still laughing now. If you're looking for more story ideas, I'd love to read more about some of the other congregants at Congregation Ze'ev.

[lacewood]

Congrats on the story! I love Shaina Rubin's continuing adventures as Unimpressed Bystander to everyone else's supernatural AND romantic drama. Here's to more adventures, kid. >:D

[slashmarks]

You know, I read the first one a while ago and had it bookmarked, and I somehow had no idea it was yours! Finished the second two today and loved them. (And sent them to my partner, who also enjoyed the first one.)

[brainwane]

YAYYYYYYY! Thank you for writing more in this series!

Is there now a webpage that lists all your published fiction?