Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchValerie Valdes | A Diet of Worms
You’re not the kind of person who shows up late to work, but today was a piece of shit, so it’s seven thirty and your mom is finally dropping you off…
9 years, 8 months ago
Maria Dahvana Headley | Little Widow
I was fourteen and at a sleepover when the cult drank poison. The sleepover mom turned on the TV and said “Oh my lord, Mary, would you look at this? …
9 years, 8 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | Four Haunted Houses
This is your haunted house. The realtor was very perceptive the day you first came by, looking for a home that would provide more than mere shelter, …
9 years, 9 months ago
G. Neri | The Hunt for the Leather Apron
On August 4th, 2014, a researcher at the British National Archives came across a sealed envelope entitled “The Leather Apron.” It had not been opened…
9 years, 9 months ago
Amanda Downum | Fossil Heart
Nan Walker doesn’t mean to fall asleep. She never does. But tonight the creak of the ceiling fan lulls her. Evie curls warm against her side, one lon…
9 years, 10 months ago
An Owomoyela | Whose Drowned Face Sleeps
When she comes into the loft, she glares at me with the bright-eyed, serpentine resentment of the dead. In the dry attic, water drips from her hair a…
9 years, 10 months ago
Gavin Pate | Red House
This is the story you remember. The girl lost in the woods. How they find her after eight days, the mud smeared on her arms and legs, clumped in her …
9 years, 11 months ago
Marc Laidlaw | The Finest, Fullest Flowering
A sour note shrieked from the limousine’s speakers, making Milston’s fingers curl in his lap. He took a moment to compose himself before rapping prec…
9 years, 11 months ago
David Tallerman | Great Black Wave
Staff Sergeant Walker steps away from the Ridgeback, wipes sweat from his eyes with a dust-grimed bandana, and tries to make sense of the scene befor…
10 years ago
Lisa Goldstein | Sawing
Clarissa watched from the wings as the Great Bertoldi sawed a woman in half. Down went the saw through the coffin-like box, then up, then down again.…
10 years ago