Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDominica 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
E. Lily Yu | The Valley of Wounded Deer
Once there was a prince of Ruyastan who was born in secret and hidden behind a false wall with a nurse to hush her and soothe and give suck. The prin…
6 years, 9 months ago
Jenny Rae Rappaport | The Answer That You Are Seeking
It’s the lollipops that break you. The thought of your child sucking on one during a lockdown drill carries enough cognitive dissonance that your bra…
6 years, 9 months ago
Seanan McGuire | Hello, Hello
Tasha’s avatar smiled from the screen, a little too perfect to be true. That was a choice, just like everything else about it: When we’d installed my…
6 years, 9 months ago
Micah Dean Hicks | Flight of the Crow Boys
People around here never wanted our family. Crow boys, they called us, a flock of five brothers and our father, all of us with long black hair. Flapp…
6 years, 10 months ago
Brooke Bolander | A Bird, a Song, a Revolution
Before the flute is a flute, it is a bird. This is the first act of magic. This is the first lesson the girl learns, when the world is still young an…
6 years, 10 months ago