Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchE. Saxey | Melioration
Gramophone music crackles out over the quad. “Read that last part again, Jay,” Professor Norris says. I raise my voice. “‘They’ has been used as a si…
11 years, 1 month ago
John Chu | 勢孤取和 (Influence Isolated, Make Peace)
Jake acquired his target as soon as he stepped into the cafeteria. For the good of the war, he had passed without a trace through forests and mountai…
11 years, 1 month ago
Kate M. Galey | Emergency Repair
I work the tip of a flathead screwdriver into the barely visible notch along the sternum and pry up the aluminum polymer casing covering the android’…
11 years, 1 month ago
Matthew Hughes | The Blood of a Dragon
The moment Erm Kaslo’s flesh touched the substance of the entity, he understood everything — but only for that moment. Then it turned out that everyt…
11 years, 1 month ago
Seanan McGuire | The Myth of Rain
Female spotted owls have a call that doesn’t sound like it should come from a bird of prey. It’s high-pitched and unrealistic, like a squeaky toy tha…
11 years, 1 month ago
Annie Bellet | Goodnight Earth
Karron leaned over the rail of her boat, the Tarik, and watched the meteor shower from its reflection in the river below. The bright streaks of light…
11 years, 2 months ago
Merrie Haskell | Sun’s East, Moon’s West
I shot the sparrow because I was starving. Though truthfully, I was aiming at a pheasant; the silver snow and the silver birches played tricks with t…
11 years, 2 months ago
Dale Bailey | The Ministry of the Eye
Mornings were queues and cigarettes. Queues for the underground turnstiles and queues for the train, queues for stale bagels and queues for lukewarm …
11 years, 2 months ago
Jason Gurley | Quiet Town
She was in the laundry room, bent over a basket of Benjamin’s muddy trousers and grass-stained T-shirts and particularly odorous socks, when a rap so…
11 years, 2 months ago
Violet Allen | We’ll Be Together Forever
Audrey took her dinner quietly, without words beyond the obligatories (please, thank you, no, work was fine), and I obliged her the silence. We just …
11 years, 3 months ago