Bittersweet feelings about this one—I’m delighted to finally have a short story podcast by J.S. Arquin’s Pacific NW-focused fiction podcast, The Overcast! But I’m sad, because it’s the very last episode of the show. J.S. has simply gotten too busy to continue the project.

Consider this fantasy tale, “Words of Power” (originally published in the anthology Shattered Shields, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Bryan Thomas Schmidt), a farewell story for the podcast.