Podcast Episodes

Caroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma

Vivian sat at a café opposite Cass. Everything around her had a gritty, dingy quality. Even Cass looked run down, their face deeply tanned and distre…

5 years, 4 months ago

Stephanie Malia Morris | Forty Acres and a Mule

My parents’ farm has shrunk, as old things tend to do. The shed, the workshop, the paddock with its doubled wire fences and chicken coop---all squat …

5 years, 5 months ago

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | Entanglement

Narrated by Judy Young.

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5 years, 5 months ago

Karen Joy Fowler | Persephone of the Crows

Isabelle Winters once saw a fairy. For real. It was little, like a hummingbird, with a hummingbird’s frantic wings, and it was moving through the gar…

5 years, 5 months ago

Caroline M. Yoachim | Shadow Prisons of the Mind

With the right overlays, the city was charming---apartment buildings done up like giant row houses, seamlessly blending Victorian and modern sensibil…

5 years, 6 months ago

Adam-Troy Castro | The Author’s Wife vs. the Giant Robot

The year I turned five, my father got taken out by a giant robot. I was present and I took it very personally. You honestly don’t expect that kind of…

5 years, 6 months ago

Katherine Crighton | Sing in Me, Muse

O Mother, dear Mnemosyne! It is I, Anisah, fifteenth of my line! Here is my song. Long have I waited for this, the end of my first shift; at last I a…

5 years, 6 months ago

KT Bryski | The Bone-Stag Walks

The Bone-Stag walks at midwinter, sharp-antlered, hard-hoofed. Deep white snow spreads under deep black sky. Cold air slices lungs; rivers stand as s…

5 years, 6 months ago

Eden Royce | Miss Beulah’s Braiding and Life Change Salon

The chime above my shop door rings. It heralds a young woman wearing a head wrap boasting a network of silvery constellations on indigo, interspersed…

5 years, 7 months ago

Caroline M. Yoachim | The Shadow Prison Experiment

The shopping district was crowded on a Sunday afternoon, and Vivian Watanabe was out running errands with her sixteen-year-old, Cass. Together they w…

5 years, 7 months ago