Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Tuttle | Ragged Claws
Last night, after a short struggle, I went out. It’s like that most evenings, the slow, silent battle between my desire to stay in, with my thoughts …
12 years, 9 months ago
Seanan McGuire | Homecoming
The locker room is always tense before a game. Alisa is trying to get her uniform to stay in place, counting more on safety pins and prayer than she …
12 years, 10 months ago
Gene Wolfe | Suzanne Delage
As I was reading last night—reading a book, I should explain, which was otherwise merely commonplace; one of those somewhat political, somewhat philo…
12 years, 10 months ago
Sean Williams | Face Value
News of the disappearance of inventor Felix Frey spread through the Air with electric ease. It was exactly the kind of distraction I needed. There ar…
12 years, 10 months ago
Cory Skerry | Breathless in the Deep
When Jantz spotted a black skeleton jutting up above the water, at first she thought it was just a tide-battered tree, but before long she could make…
12 years, 10 months ago
Ken Liu | The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
The tiny cottage at the edge of Sanli Village—away from the villagers’ noisy houses and busy clan shrines and next to the cool pond filled with lily …
12 years, 11 months ago
Yoon Ha Lee | The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars
The tower is a black spire upon a world whose only sun is a million starships wrecked into a mass grave. Light the color of fossils burns from the sh…
12 years, 11 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin | The Stars Below
The wooden house and outbuildings caught fire fast, blazed up, burned down, but the dome, built of lathe and plaster above a drum of brick, would not…
12 years, 11 months ago
Ryan North | Cancer
This certifies that HELEN FRANCES LAWRENCE, sex FEMALE was born to JOHN DENISON LAWRENCE and VIRGINIA MATILDA LAWRENCE on SATURDAY at SIX TEN PM, thi…
13 years ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Boy and the Box
The boy looked like any other boy his age, except that, thanks to him, there had been for some time now no other boys his age, or of any other age. T…
13 years ago