This week on the Tor.com Original Fiction Podcast, we have Matthew Sanborn Smith reading his story “Beauty Belongs to the Flowers”:
Matsumoto Miho had seen ten thousand hospital rooms on the feeds, and not one had looked like this. The room did look clean—no cup or chair was out of place—but a proper hospital room, an American hospital room, contained one patient, not four. The patients, even in the Chinese and Indian feeds, did not look like these men. Proper patients were muscular, bandaged or form-fleshed, unblemished save for a few cuts and, most importantly, attractive.
Check it out on the story page, in iTunes, or at the TorDotStories RSS feed. Happy listening!