Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthew Bailey | The Birth Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel
When they inform you the birth will take place on a mutually acceptable research vessel, you nod and smile as if it was your choice all along. Becaus…
9 years, 8 months ago
Rudy Rucker | The Knobby Giraffe
My name’s Irit Ziv. I have a low-rent apartment in the East Village that I used to share with my girlfriend, Shirley Chen. It’s April now, and Shirle…
9 years, 8 months ago
Carrie Vaughn | Origin Story
Living in Commerce City, odds are you’re going to get caught up in something someday---pinned down in the crossfire of some epic battle between heroe…
9 years, 9 months ago
Nghi Vo | Dragon Brides
Dragon brides are notoriously difficult women. We have lived with dragons, after all, those strange and terrible animals with their curiously human e…
9 years, 9 months ago
Marie Vibbert | Michael Doesn’t Hate His Mother
At rest, coiled up, Michael’s mother is about the size of a riding mower. Michael’s living room is not much bigger than her. With a shudder, she ris…
9 years, 9 months ago
Craig DeLancey | RedKing
Tain held a pistol toward me. The black gel of the handle pulsed, waiting to be gripped. “Better take this,” she said. I shook my head. “I never use …
9 years, 9 months ago
Rich Larson | Sparks Fly
“There’s a dark side to sloths,” she said, using her straw to plumb the ice at the bottom of her glass, flicking red-blonde hair out of blue-blue eye…
9 years, 10 months ago
Caroline M. Yoachim | Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0
You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look…
9 years, 10 months ago
Karin Tidbeck | Starfish
On the third day of the sightseeing trip, among walrus-laden icebergs, they run into slurry. At the fore, Skipper sticks a boat hook into the water. …
9 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
The rock star washed ashore at high tide. Earlier in the day, Bay had seen something bobbing far out in the water. Remnant of a rowboat, perhaps, or …
9 years, 10 months ago