M. Bennardo | The Herons of Mer de l’Ouest
A loon called this morning, loud and clear in the cold hours before dawn, but it was not that which woke me from my sleep. As I opened my eyes, the bay and the beach were wrapped in heavy blackness, i...
26 Feb 201336min
Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris
Harry looked out the window and thought: At least I saw Paris one more time before it was destroyed in the bombardment. Narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
19 Feb 20131h 15min
Robert Reed | Eight Episodes
With minimal fanfare and next to no audience, Invasion of a Small World debuted in the summer of 2016, and after a brief and disappointing run, the series was deservedly shelved. Narrated by Paul Boeh...
12 Feb 201332min
Marly Youmans | Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix
Perhaps you’ve heard an anecdote about a child named Cresencio who was skipping barefoot between hills of corn when a shallow bowl in the field, long turbulent with mutterings, broke into pieces. Cres...
5 Feb 201340min
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Purity Test
My feet are scraped and bleeding, my slippers shredded and almost useless. The dress hangs in tatters around me. No longer white, it still bears the pearls along the bodice, and I hope I can keep them...
22 Jan 201353min
Jeffrey Ford | Daltharee
You’ve heard of bottled cities, no doubt—society writ miniscule and delicate beyond reason: toothpick spired towns, streets no thicker than thread, pin-prick faces of the citizenry peering from office...
15 Jan 201325min
Cherie Priest | Addison Howell and the Clockroach
Addison Howell didn’t so much arrive in the town of Humptulips as appear there sometime around 1875. He had money, which set him apart from everybody else—because everybody else was working for the lo...
8 Jan 201320min
Matthew Kressel | The Sounds of Old Earth
Earth has grown quiet since everyone’s shipped off to the new one. I walk New Paltz’s empty streets with an ox-mask tight about my face. An acidic rain mists my body, and a thick fog obscures the vac-...
1 Jan 201339min
