PodCastle Miniature #97 โWhen I Had Eyes, I Didnโt Seeโ by Anna Yeatts | PodCastle
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Clay and Smokeless Fire by Saladin Ahmed | PodCastle
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The Chaos Village by M.K. Hutchins | PodCastle
EP579: Texts from the Ghost War
Texts from the Ghost War By Alex Yuschik While I realize driving that mech likely takes all of your limited resources, please take care not to step on the roses. what Donโt step on the roses. I donโt care if weโre under imminent attack. Your mech is standing so close to them Iโm cringing. who [โฆ]
The Cruelest Team Will Win by Mike Allen | PodCastle
PodCastle 324: Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy | PodCastle
Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy by Saladin Ahmed I do not know how he brought us to this land of blood and iron masks. I know only that I am a real man trapped in a mad landscape of living lessons. My brothers and I were spirited here from my home inโฆDamascus? Yes, praise be โฆ
The Thirty-Seven Faces of Tokh-Bathon by Effie Seiberg | PodCastle
EP578: Cherry Squid
Cherry Squid By Celeste Hollister It was the cherry squid that did him in. Outside his window, seventy stories up, the advertisement bloomed, melon yellow, racecar red. A shoal of squid rippled across the holo, a tangram pattern that morphed into a human face. Almost human, but with a Vrellanโs ruby eyes. Then a blush of [โฆ]
EP577: The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself
The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself By Matt Dovey โthen scooted her chair over to the microscope. Amira only needed a glance at the holographic zoom floating over the scope. The viral cells were replicating rapidly, budding and splitting at a phenomenal rate. โHey, Mariana, look at [โฆ]
EP571: Beetle-Cleaned Skulls
Beetle-Cleaned Skulls By J. E. Bates Fine amber dust infiltrated everything in the Preserve. Each morning, I vacuumed it away with my ventral hose prior to opening my kiosk. I paid particular care to my curios: the fossils, the bismuth crystals, and the beetle-cleaned skulls. Forebears, especially the children, delighted in receiving my curios as gifts. [โฆ]
EP575: Red Kelly Owns the Moon
Red Kelly Owns the Moon By Shaenon Garrity Nobody remembered how Red Kelly got his hands on the moon. He picked up a lot of things back then. You had to, working at the Westinghouse on a brazierโs pay. Red played cards, ran numbers around town, and, every other year, warmed hands for the Democratic [โฆ]
EP576: Karma Among the Cloud Kings
Karma Among the Cloud Kings By Brian Trent I. Fifty thousand feet above Tempestโs highest clouds, Antarag Vel-heth invites me to sit beside him in the lobby of Lindorm Refueling Station. Itโs a desolate, littered expanse of tables, party-streamers, and plastic people with unceasingly flapping jaws. โWhatโฆ what are they doing?โ I whisper, sweating despite the [โฆ]
EP572: Nothing to See Here
Nothing to See Here By Arthur Doweyko There is a comfort in the strength of love; โTwill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart. ~William Wordsworth I heard a squawkโkind of like the goose call that comes out of a police cruiser. Blinking red and blue lights danced [โฆ]
EP574: Yosemite
Yosemite By D.S. McNab Have you ever wondered why park rangers are so deliriously happy with their job despite the crap pay? The easy answer is that they just really dig nature. But pull back that mossy curtain, and youโll find a slightly less pleasant explanation. Hereโs a hint: It has a tentacle tongue, about three [โฆ]
PodCastle Miniature 48: An Invitation via Email | PodCastle
An Invitation via Email by Mike Allen Some of the asides in your article made me realize (Gods, can I be dense sometimes) that when you spoke of concerns about โarcane ritesโ in response to the invite to my Halloween party the next evening, that you possibly werenโt kidding and perhaps had some genuine anxieties. โฆ
EP573: Whatever Tower, However High
Whatever Tower, However High By Julia K. Patt It is my 567th day inside. But Iโm not really counting. Outside, Leo and Maurizio sit by the front steps of the house playing 3D chess. Not far from them, Antonia tinkers with her latest project, which looks for all the world like a wheelchair with exhaust pipes. [โฆ]
EP033: Santa In My Pocket
By Mur Lafferty. Read by Anna Eley. When I was a kid, I believed it all, like that old wiveโs tale that animals would be granted the gift of speech for one hour on Christmas Eve. I tested that out by keeping my cat locked up in my room with me all night. She never [โฆ]
EP061: I Look Forward To Remembering You
By Mur Lafferty. Read by Daisy Ottmann, Anna Eley, and Stephen Eley. She smiled at last and gave a satisfied little sigh. He was just as sheโd ordered. Without raising her eyes to his face, she asked, โSo when do we begin?โ โWe just have some paperwork to go over,โ he said. He bent over โฆ
EP085: Merry Christmas from the Heartbreakers
By Mur Lafferty. Read by Stephen and Anna Eley. Musical guest: Twisted Sister. โLook, I think I know where this is going,โ Kris Kringle said, but Gingermuffin cut him off. โDo you? The Heartbreakers have been making Tom Petty sound good for years, and no one gives a damn. Tom Petty gets all of the โฆ
EP137: Citytalkers
By Mur Lafferty. Read by Deborah Green. Closing Music: โO Come All Ye Faithful,โ performed by Twisted Sister. Gloria blinked. โWhy do the people in Cleveland love Christmas more than anywhere else?โ Toby grinned and spread his hands on the bar, unadorned fingers splayed. He stared at them, โI didnโt say Clevelandโs people loved Christmas. โฆ
PodCastle 339: Help Summon the Most Holy Folded One! | PodCastle
Help Summon the Most Holy Folded One! by Harry Connolly Youโve Heard The Experts How many styles of taco are there? Not just fish/pork/beef/chicken, but also puffed, breakfast, even Chocotacos (if you can stand the very thought). There are disagreements over whether they should be made with corn or flour tortillas, whether they should be โฆ
PodCastle 85, Giant Episode: The Narcomancer | PodCastle
The Narcomancer by N.K. Jemisin โDeath is not a Gathererโs business,โ Cet said. Did the woman realize how greatly she had insulted him and all his brethren? For the first time in a very long while, he felt anger stir in his heart. โPeace is our business. Sharers do that by healing the flesh. Gatherers deal with the soul, โฆ