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Jan 2023
50m 25s

"The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library"...

Levar Burton And Stitcher
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A hapless salesman flees the librarian hell-bent on retrieving her lost library book. This story appears in Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, published by Tordotcom in hardcover and e-book, and by Recorded Books in audiobook format. For more from the author, visit tobiogundiran.com.


Content advisory: Explicit language, gore

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