Podcast Episodes

Andrew Dana Hudson | Your Mind is the Superfund Site

“Ever consider killing yourself?” the gecko said. “It’ll save you one hundred percent on your car insurance.” I was alone, but not. I tried to step o…

5 years, 7 months ago

Kat Howard | The Lachrymist

It is not the dust that brings her tears. The Lachrymist’s house is dusty, fragments of time and memory fallen everywhere, a living blanket that drap…

5 years, 7 months ago

Gene Doucette | Schrödinger’s Catastrophe [Part 2]

It took twice as long to get to the third deck from the first as it did to get to the first deck from the fifth. Alice was quite certain there was no…

5 years, 8 months ago

Gene Doucette | Schrödinger’s Catastrophe [Part 1]

Things began to go badly for the crew of the USFS Erwin around the time Dr. Marchere’s coffee mug spontaneously reassembled itself. Dr. Louis Marcher…

5 years, 8 months ago

Naomi Kanakia | Everquest

Gopal knew before he booted up the game---a Christmas present from his dad---that his character would be some form of elf or human, because the other…

5 years, 8 months ago

Jenny Rae Rappaport | Everything and Nothing

Start with a romance: a man and a woman who are wildly and irrevocably in love with each other. Or two men. Or two women. Or two people, because life…

5 years, 8 months ago

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, 9 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, 9 months ago

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | Entanglement

Narrated by Judy Young.

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5 years, 9 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, 10 months ago