Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCat Rambo | The Silent Familiar
The Wizard Niccolo was not happy. At the age of 183---youthful for a wizard, but improbable for an ordinary human---he had thought certain things wel…
6 years ago
T.L. Huchu | Njuzu
Water looks the same everywhere. It’s only the background, lighting, and impurities that differ. I peer at the silver-gray surface of Bimha’s pond, c…
6 years, 1 month ago
KT Bryski | The Path of Pins, the Path of Needles
In the very heart of winter, the forest holds its breath. Frozen earth sleeps without dreaming; brittle sunlight breaks and scatters in gasps between…
6 years, 1 month ago
Adam-Troy Castro | Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos With Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen
Ellis Neider met his soulmate. The End. That’s his story. The rest is annotation. We would almost skip that part, were it not for the stone knowledg…
6 years, 1 month ago
Melissa Marr | Knee Deep in the Sea
I woke early---or perhaps didn’t sleep. My body is still adjusting to the time zone hop from Southern California to the islands north of the Scottish…
6 years, 1 month ago
Dominica Phetteplace | Her Appetite, His Heart
It came to Javi in a vision while he was at Burning Man. There was something calling out to him, and he’d hoped an ayahuasca ceremony would help him …
6 years, 2 months ago
Yoon Ha Lee | The Second-Last Client
Forty-six minutes and a trickle of seconds remained before the end of the world---this world, anyway---and I was trying to evacuate the second-last c…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ray Nayler | The Death of Fire Station 10
“The death of Fire Station 10 affected me deeply. She had not been the smartest building, but she had been a friend for as long as I can remember. Sh…
6 years, 2 months ago
Isabel Yap | Windrose in Scarlet
Red slays the wolf, and another bursts through the kitchen window and bites her in the stomach. Glass gets in her hair. She smashes the chopping knif…
6 years, 2 months ago
Eli Brown | Nesting Habits of Enceladan Jade Beetles
The pink frost coating my face shield is, evidently, my own blood. The gas jetting from the pea-sized hole in my wrist spins me around, and for a pan…
6 years, 3 months ago