Podcast Episodes
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The first time you can’t answer the question, you are already within the Great Dragon. Any bad decisions today? Mindy’s text reads. Around you, the G…
2 years, 8 months ago
Seed
The two of us, myself and this man I did not know, sat at a table in a windowless white cell with an indefinite light source. I was afraid, as afraid…
2 years, 8 months ago
We'll Never Die in the Woods
The unkind witch in Hook Tree Woods has little use for people. Mothers and sisters, obviously, will only disappoint you, and friends—well. She never …
2 years, 8 months ago
Carbon Zero
“Is there a problem, officer?” “We’re not the police.” My partner, Enrico, places his palm against the door, ready to test the old man’s resolve. I t…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Moment Before the Moment
Azahn had been the ninety-third Imperial Foresight to the Dynasty of Silken Flame for only three weeks when he was forcibly retired. His body had bee…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Record of Lost Time
How did we end up here? The humans before me had the same physiological traits as I did, yet still we had no means of communicating with one another.…
2 years, 9 months ago
Last Ritual of the Smoke Eaters
I didn’t want to eat Joshua, but he turned into dust, and the way things go in Carrucchi village is that if someone turns into ashes you inhale them …
2 years, 9 months ago
The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time
If you’re reading this, in a self-destructing DM, on the reverse strand of a plasmid, in the recipe binder you found in a deported neighbor’s belongi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Where the God-Knives Tread (Part 2 of 2)
Every Teshiarr metropolis, town, and hamlet had featured an agora, the community centerpiece for shopping, conversing, and joining. It was where one …
2 years, 10 months ago
Where the God-Knives Tread (Part 1 of 2)
When the ship’s scanners first chirped in the dead of night, Sien figured it was another misfire: light reflecting off asteroid ice, solar radiation,…
2 years, 11 months ago