Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVandana Singh | Ruminations in an Alien Tongue
Sitting on the sun-warmed step at the end of her workday, Birha laid her hand on the dog’s neck and let her mind drift. Like a gyre-moth finding the …
14 years, 3 months ago
Steven Utley | Test
Something is eating the starship Stephen W. Hawking, chewing it slowly and efficiently to pieces. Hurtling through hyperspace, or merely hanging susp…
14 years, 3 months ago
David Barr Kirtley | Beauty
Nicole Sanders was beautiful. One night after work, she stopped off at a bar downtown, which is where she met the beast. “Hi,” the beast said, in a g…
14 years, 3 months ago
Kathleen Ann Goonan | Electric Rains
Ella sat by Nana’s body for two days before she pushed it out the window. She had spent the first half-day realizing what death was, the next half-da…
14 years, 3 months ago
Mary Rosenblum | My She
I wait outside the speaking chamber, where the young Speakers learn to Hear and Speak. The walls and carpeted floor are purest white, the color of th…
14 years, 4 months ago
S. L. Gilbow | Alarms
My curse is that I set off alarms. Smoke alarms. Car alarms. House alarms. It doesn’t matter what kind; I set them all off as soon as I get close to …
14 years, 4 months ago
Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil
Carefully, with gloved hands, she removed the object from its stone niche, where it had rested for centuries deep underground, inside the dormant vol…
14 years, 4 months ago
Gregory Benford | Dark Sanctuary
In the asteroid belt you either have fast reflexes or you’re a statistic. I slammed into the airlock bulkhead and stopped dead, waiting to see where …
14 years, 5 months ago
Brooke Bolander | Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring
The fox shoulders and wriggles from between her jaws, first the whiskery, pointed muzzle and then all the rest. Finally free, it shakes its sodden co…
14 years, 5 months ago
Ken Liu | The Five Elements of the Heart Mind
The Dandelion lost structural integrity so quickly that I doubt the bridge even had time for a distress call, and this escape pod’s radio is only sub…
14 years, 5 months ago