Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremiah Tolbert | The West Topeka Triangle
As much as the other kids in my neighborhood like to tell me I’m a know-it-all, I realize just how short the list of things I actually know is one co…
9 years, 1 month ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Whole Crew Hates Me
They hate me. They have told me this, again and again, starting from almost the first day of the mission, and continuing every day since then, carryi…
9 years, 2 months ago
Kat Howard | Seven Salt Tears
When I was a child, my mother would tell me stories of the sea. When I couldn’t sleep, when I was restless, when I burned with some childhood fever, …
9 years, 2 months ago
Charles Payseur | The Death of Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan has died. Paul Bunyan has died and Johnny Appleseed is heading north. Not for vengeance, like Paul would have wanted. Not to beat the hil…
9 years, 2 months ago
Violet Allen | The Venus Effect
This is 2015. A party on a westside roof, just before midnight. Some Mia or Mina or throwing it, the white girl with the jean jacket and the headband…
9 years, 2 months ago
Carlie St. George | Every Day Is the Full Moon
There are things you know and things you don’t know. You find it helpful to make lists. For example: THINGS YOU KNOW: — A Wrinkle in Time is bullshit…
9 years, 3 months ago
Rich Larson | The Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death
Sarge knew before I did, of course, but I still had to take him the transfer orders. I didn’t know how to feel on my way to the officers’ mess. I wou…
9 years, 3 months ago
Helena Bell | I’ve Come to Marry the Princess
Before Jack can apologize to Nancy, she has to believe that dragons exist. Nancy’s mad at him because they were supposed to perform a skit at the tal…
9 years, 3 months ago
Alyssa Wong | Natural Skin
As I shrug on my jacket, moving across the carpet as quietly as I can, my sister Xuemei pushes her blankets aside and rolls over onto her belly with …
9 years, 4 months ago
J.B. Park | Shooting Gallery
It took a while, but in the end we bargained it down to a shot right on my chest, with his mom’s gun. I didn’t know anything about guns, but the thin…
9 years, 4 months ago