Escape Pod 839: Universal Archive of Human History: FAQ
Escape Pod 840: The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) / Alien Invader or Assistive Device?
Escape Pod 832: Mouthfeel
Escape Pod 833: The Heroine Kokofe | Escape Pod
Escape Pod 830: Rena in the Desert
PodCastle 800: D.I.Y. - PodCastle
D.I.Y. By John Wiswell People ask how Noah could possibly turn down the Ozymandias Academy. All they know about him is the headlines, and they think he’s ungrateful. What you don’t get is that attending Ozymandias was Noah’s dream. Noah wanted it worse than anyone. Do you know where he was when he was […]
Escape Pod 944: How to Keep Your Cool If You’re a Mech First Day on the Job (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1) Jenna gave herself a few moments to seethe in silence before she spoke, to make sure her voice was calm. “I can’t move.” “Did you hear that?” Daron took a swig of his water…
PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
Amma’s Kitchen by Rati Mehrotra I can always tell what dish my customers will order. Knowing what the dead crave is my gift. Or my curse. It’s hard to know which. This girl, for instance. Brown, like me, but pale, as if the color’s been leeched out of her skin. Dark, staring eyes, weeds […]
Cast of Wonders 592: Flawless | Cast of Wonders
When people stay in hotel rooms, they suddenly turn into toddlers. Weird, creative, screwed-up toddlers. Let’s smear jam on the wall! Let’s leave apple cores in the drawers! Let’s hide used nappies…
Escape Pod 948: Thank You for Doing Business with the Xyb’lor Principality
Jaxon was not a connoisseur of art, but he could identify a work’s salient features. And the salient features of these particular works were that they were valuable, lacking any obvious security…
Cast of Wonders 593: The Bookstore at the End of America | Cast of Wonders
A bookshop on a hill. Two front doors, two walkways lined with blank slates and grass, two identical signs welcoming customers to the First and Last Page, and a great blue building in the middle…
PodCastle 846: Against All Odds - PodCastle
Against All Odds By Anna Mikhalevskaya Translated by Elvira Rizaeva Time is slipping away drop by drop, along with sweat on deceptively calm faces. He runs through the shafts of stairs, through abandoned tunnels. Seeps through the ceilings into echoing hangars, stumbles upon crooked figures, shakes oilcloth curtains, rolls empty mugs, beats metal on […]
PodCastle 847: The Golem Lover - PodCastle
The Golem Lover by J.H. Siegal I have learned of a lace that runs through my little village. Geilevska, nestled within the bosom of nearby hills, rests upon these strands, sewn around the fertile patchwork of letters learned in the men’s yeshiva, through the words traded by merchants, beneath the whispers of the […]
Cast of Wonders 590: Umami | Cast of Wonders
Their progress through the woods had slowed to a stagger, but they kept going. They had to. Jane shoved one booted foot through the layers of fallen leaves, then the other. Imagination kept her fear…
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PodCastle 840: The Sound of Children Screaming - PodCastle
The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones THE GUN You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the front office or […]
PodCastle 841: Pirates - PodCastle
Pirates by E.F. Benson For many years this project of sometime buying back the house had simmered in Peter Graham’s mind, but whenever he actually went into the idea with practical intention, stubborn reasons had presented themselves to deter him. In the first place it was very far off from his work, down […]
Cast of Wonders 587: The Game of Mao | Cast of Wonders
The Game of Mao has only one rule: don’t explain the rules to the game of Mao. It’s the only rule we may be told — the rest are clouded in secrecy and it is up to us to figure them out through trial…
PodCastle 842: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Aunties Return the Ocean - PodCastle
The Aunties Return the Ocean By Chris Kuriata Auntie Roberta landed badly on the roof of her escarpment house, scraping her knees across the flagstone shingles and splitting her pantyhose. Her arms were too full of black water to keep her balance so she nearly slid off the edge. She carried so much ocean she […]
EP538: The Starsmith
STORY: EP538: The Starsmith AUTHOR: Jonathan Edelstein NARRATOR: James Odcombe HOST: Tina Connolly This story has not been previously published, but is set in the same universe as “First Do No Harm,” which appeared in Strange Horizons. Discuss on our forums. For a list of all Escape Pod stories, authors and narrators, visit our sortable Wikipedia page Thank you …
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