Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUsman Malik | Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung [Part 1]
Jee Inspector Sahib, he came looking for a missing girl in Lahore Park one evening in the summer of 2013, this man known as Hakim Shafi. It was a sum…
7 years, 7 months ago
Halli Villegas | A Mother’s Love Never Ends
Mother would have never taken the bus. She had specific prejudices---the train yes, the bus no, taking The Lord’s name in vain, no, calling someone a…
7 years, 7 months ago
Joanna Parypinski | What’s Coming to You
Madeline had a plain, dull face that only a mother could love, even though hers hadn’t. She’d been a clever child, clever enough to realize early on …
7 years, 8 months ago
M. Rickert | True Crime
He cut off her arms and threw them on the side of the road. They wanted a boy. Her uncle taught her how to play the game. The last time anyone saw he…
7 years, 8 months ago
Weston Ochse | House of Small Spiders
Some houses never have a soul. It’s not their fault. It’s just the way it is. For a soul to be born to a house, almost too many things have to happen…
7 years, 9 months ago
G.V. Anderson | Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold
My brother was hanged on a Monday and two days later I followed him. When the trapdoor opened for the short drop, the sharp stop never came: instead,…
7 years, 9 months ago
Nino Cipri | Dead Air
Nita: So you thought I made you sign a release as, what, foreplay? [Laughter.] Voice: I was, like, four tequilas deep by the time you walked in and p…
7 years, 10 months ago
Caspian Gray | Kylie Land
Do not make friends was not actually an explicit Rule, but it was implied by some of the others: do not do anything to draw attention to yourself and…
7 years, 10 months ago
Alison Littlewood | Ways to Wake
I hear the sound before I open my eyes. Someone is eating, though I should be alone in my room, and it’s too loud, too close. When I look, I see the …
7 years, 11 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | Red Rain
Have you ever found yourself on a midtown sidewalk on some warm July day when a plummeting body splattered on the pavement, directly in front of you?…
7 years, 11 months ago