I listened to this very moving podcast on my way home yesterday.
It’s about a Somali main who becomes a political prisoner of the regime and is kept in solitary confinement. His only human contact is when his friend in the next cell teaches him how to tap out code, letter by letter, on their shared wall.
Then his friend gets a book. Anna Karenina. And he reads it to the guy. All 800 pages. By tapping it out, letter by letter, on the wall.
And it helps him in completely unexpected ways that are thought-provoking from a writer’s POV.
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
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