Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchN.K. Jemisin | The Ones Who Stay and Fight
It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat! The Day is a local custom, silly and random as so many local customs can be, and yet beautiful by…
6 years, 5 months ago
J.R. Dawson | She’d Never Had a Name Before
I never had a sister. Okay, so I did have a sister. She just died before she was born. No one talked about her, because sometimes a family looks ahea…
6 years, 6 months ago
Alexander Weinstein | Destinations of Joy
Ever since the discovery of the eighth continent, we’ve all had to come to terms with the presence of a landmass we never knew existed. In this age, …
6 years, 6 months ago
Kij Johnson | Story Kit
The pain of losing something so precious that you did not think you could live without it. Oxygen. The ice breaks beneath your feet: Your coat and bo…
6 years, 6 months ago
Matthew Baker | A Bad Day in Utopia
She’d had a hard day. Earlier that morning she’d discovered that the game her company was developing, which was already months behind schedule for re…
6 years, 6 months ago
Cat 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, 6 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago