Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSunny Moraine | So Sharp That Blood Must Flow
In the end, the water goes black with the witch’s blood. Before this happens, the little mermaid understands that a deal is a deal, a bargain a barga…
12 years, 5 months ago
Jess Barber | Coma Kings
So I guess the story begins, fittingly, with someone handing me a Coma rig and saying, play me. Two a.m. and I’m at this party in somebody’s trailer …
12 years, 5 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Thing About Shapes to Come
Monica’s new baby was like a lot of new babies these days in that she was born a cube. She had no external or internal sexual organs, or for that mat…
12 years, 5 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin | Elementals
No one knows how many airlings there are, most likely not a great many, whatever a great many means. They inhabit the atmosphere, generally between a…
12 years, 5 months ago
Terry Bisson | Bears Discover Fire
I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher’s son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was Sunday…
12 years, 6 months ago
Jeremiah Tolbert | In the Dying Light, We Saw a Shape
.@neiltyson calls them “space diatoms,” but I say “space whales.” They’re beaching themselves on our interstellar shores. Question is: why? —Tweet by…
12 years, 6 months ago
William Browning Spencer | The Foster Child
I came, the hope of my tribe, to the City of Absolutes, in the year of the zero plus two big and a nine. I sought Lena, the girl I had dreamed of as …
12 years, 6 months ago
Maureen F. McHugh | Dead Fads
The dead have fads. I work in Deadtown, at a bar mostly frequented by the Dead. They call me PD for Pre-Dead. The Dead tip for shit because they just…
12 years, 6 months ago
James Patrick Kelly | Miss Nobody Never Was
Everybody thinks that bartenders steal. You know what? They’re right. Maybe there’s an upright bartender someplace where it’s all parking lots and co…
12 years, 7 months ago
Hao Jingfang | Invisible Planets
Chichi Raha is a fascinating place, its flowers and lakes unforgettable to all visitors. There, you cannot see a single inch of exposed soil because …
12 years, 7 months ago