Cast of Wonders

Narrated by Heather Welliver Originally published in the December 2012 issue of The Devilfish Review. Listen above or download here. Show Notes Our story this week is a special re-broadcast of Into the Forever Place by Luke Thomas. This story originally ran in July of last year, but the recording suffered from a technical failure that meant we took it down almost as soon as it went up, so we’ve decided to re-release it for your listening pleasure. Luke Thomas is a writer and web developer based in Brooklyn, New York. This story is from a cycle of stories and novels Luke has been working on since 2010, all of which explore William Blake’s poetry in a pulpy, science fantasy context. Luke can be found on Twitter, where he installed a second ‘R’ in his initials to enhance the quality of all his fantasy writing. Your narrator is Heather Welliver. Heather is a singer, narrator and voice actor. She has dozens of recording credits to her name, including Cybrosis by P.C. Haring, and Chasing the Bard by Philippa Ballantine. You may also recognize her voice from the podcast universe. She’s appeared on Transmissions From Beyond as well as all three […]

Narrated by Rikki LaCoste, Isis LaCoste and Fiona “Princess Scientist” Van Verth Audio production by Rikki LaCoste Forthcoming from Solaris in May 2015 in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9, and from Tor.com. Listen above or download here. Show Notes This week we have a special a full cast audio production for you, Ellen Klages’ Amicae Aeternum. Ellen is the author of two acclaimed YA historical novels: The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell Award, the New Mexico Book Award, and the Lopez Award; and White Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book Awards. Her story, Basement Magic, won a Nebula Award in 2005. In 2014, Wakulla Springs, co-authored with Andy Duncan, was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Ellen lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of books and other strange and wondrous things. Learn more at her not-updated-often enough website. The story has three narrators for you. First, we welcome back Fiona “Princess Scientist” Van Verth. Fiona narrated The Girl With The Picollo from our Little Wonders special in September last year. Fiona is […]

Authors: Emmalia Harrington and Jamie Lackey Narrators: Anne Fortune and Marguerite Kenner Listen above or download here. Show Notes You’re listening to Little Wonders, our thematic flash fiction collections. This week we bring you our final episode for 2014, and lucky number 150 – a pair of stories for the inspired by the Season of Goodwill. Our first offering is The Secret Ingredient Is by Emmalia Harrington. Emmalia is a writer and librarian who is making her first forays into publishing fiction. She adores fantasy, science fiction and other speculative works, as well as historical fiction and non-fiction. When she isn’t writing, she’s sewing, knitting, cooking or otherwise trying to keep her hands busy. The story is served up for you by Anne-Louise Fortune, an actor and performer from Manchester. She also finds time to write scripts and the occasional audio drama, and yes, fanfic, as well as taking photographs at ‘geek events’ for Starburst Magazine. On Sundays Anne can be found being the eternally exasperated ‘Producer Al’ for The Bookworm podcast, a part of Fab Radio International. You can also find her on Twitter and follow her adventures as she conquers her fear of heights by learning aerial acrobatics! […]

Narrated by Dani Daly Listen above or download here. Show Notes Megan Hutchins is the author of the YA fantasy novel Drift. Her short fiction has appeared in IGMS and Daily Science Fiction. She studied archaeology at BYU, giving her the opportunity to compile ancient Maya genealogies, excavate in Belize, and work as a faunal analyst. You can find out more on her website, or when she tweets. The story is narrated for you by Dani Daly, who you might most recently remember from Episode 107, The Surfacing by Kurt Newton. Dani lives on Long Island with her husband and cats and has been busy training to play roller derby the past year. She occasionally blogs at her website, and you can find the YA audiobook she narrated, Sister Raven by Karen Rae Levine on Audible. It’s a story about a young girl raised to think she’s someone she’s not and how she goes about finding her true self. She’s also on Twitter. Midnight in Karachi, hosted by Mahvesh Murad. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read Along Click here to read the text of the story

Narrated by Lizzie S. Listen above or download here. Show Notes Amanda C. Davis has an engineering degree and a fondness for baking, gardening, and low-budget horror films. Her short fiction has appeared in print and around the web. For a collection of dark fairy-tale retellings, check out Wolves and Witches, co-written with her sister Megan Engelhardt. You can follow her on Twitter or read more of her work at her website. Shimmer is narrated for you by Lizzie S. Lizzie works in data visualisation, and her work hours are consumed with thinking about data, how it fits together and how to visualise it in a simple manner for others. To escape this she is a keen gamer, writer and reader vanishing off into fantasy worlds for hours at a time. She currently lives with her husband and dreams of a time when they might have space to own a cat or a dog. You can follow her on Twitter. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read Along Click here to read the text of the story

Narrated by Marguerite Kenner Listen above or download here. Show Notes Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read Along

Narrated by Marguerite Kenner Listen above or download here. Show Notes Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read Along Click here to read the text of the story

Narrated by Peter Newman Listen above or download here. Show Notes A.T. Greenblatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. Fueled by a sheer love of books and a tyrannical imagination, she writes the stories that appear over her morning coffee and won’t leave her alone until they are put down on paper. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise XVI and her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Buzzy Mag, and other online journals. Find her at online and on Twitter. The story is narrated for you by the lovely and multi-talented Peter Newman. Pete co-writes the Hugo-nominated Tea and Jeopardy podcast released through the Geek Planet Online network, where he is the voice of the world’s most patient butler, Latimer. His debut fantasy novel, The Vagrant, is being published by Harper Voyager in 2015. You can find him on Twitter and online with the phrase “Run Pete Write”. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read Along Click here to read the text of the story

Listen above or download here. Hello everyone! Marguerite is on vacation this week and next. Allen has a great book recommendation for you – check it out!

Narrated by Mur Lafferty Listen above or download here. Show Notes This week we present The Perfect Prom, by Kat Otis. Kat lives a peripatetic life with a pair of cats who enjoy riding in the car as long as there’s no country music involved. Her fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXVI. Her story What Memories are Made Of will be out in Daily Science Fiction this month. She can be found online or on Twitter. The story is narrated for you by the one, the only, the amazing Mur Lafferty. Mur is the 2013 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She’s been called one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing and her latest book, The Shambling Guides 2: Ghost Train to New Orleans should be on your To Be Read Stack. When Mur isn’t writing urban fantasy, superhero satire, afterlife mythology, and Christmas stories she’s podcasting for the likes of Angry Robot and her own award-winning I Should Be Writing. And as if all that wasn’t enough, in January this year she graduated from the Stonecoast program at […]

Narrated by Elie Hirschman Listen above or download here. Show Notes This week we present The Clasp, by Jarod K Anderson. Jarod used to teach English at Ohio University. Currently, he works at a foundation that raises money for a wide range of college scholarships. He writes about education by day and ghosts, monsters, and madmen by night. It’s a good arrangement. Jarod’s work has appeared in numerous online and print publications including Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Electric Spec, The Colored Lens, Stupefying Stories, and elsewhere. Find him online here. For aspiring writers, Jarod and his wife Leslie J. Anderson co-wrote the book Inklings: 300 Starts, Plots, and Challenges to inspire your Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Stories. Inklings is currently available at Amazon.com. Jarod and Leslie also have a forthcoming project from Sterling Publishing titled 100 Prompts for Science Fiction Writers which will be available in late 2014. The Clasp is narrated for you by Elie Hirschman. Elie’s narrated for the triumvirate of Escape Artists podcasts: Podcastle, Escape Pod and Pseudopod. You may also remember him from Episode 106, our Little Wonders collection The Journey, where he narrated Treasure Hunter. Elie has been dabbling in voice acting for […]

Narrated by Melissa Bugaj Listen above or download here. Show Notes This week we present Old People Rules, by Holly Schofield. Holly travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of a prairie farmhouse and her writing cabin on the Canadian west coast. Her work has been published in Perihelion and AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. She also has stories in three anthologies: Tesseracts 17, Oomph: A Little Super Goes A Long Way, and The Future Embodied. She is very pleased to have work forthcoming in Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction issue which will be out in June and hopes that the stories there will speak to the unique experiences and abilities of teenage girls. You can find out more on Light Speed’s site under their Special Issues section. For more of Holly’s work, see her wesbite. Your narrator is Melissa Bugaj. Melissa is a proud mom of an eight-year-old boy and five-year-old girl. She is a special educator in her fourteenth year of teaching. Melissa has taught all grade levels from preschool to grade five in both general and special education. Recently, she’s taken a leap in her teaching as […]

Narrated by M K Hobson Listen above or download here. Show Notes This week we present Taxidermy and Other Dangerous Professions by JR Johnson. JR grew up in the folded Appalachian hills, where she learned to love Fall, blueberries straight from the bush, and the stream beneath the willows near her house. The fact that Fall is inevitably followed by Winter, that picking berries means crossing paths with bears, and that the stream was laced with dioxins may also have had some impact on her outlook. For more on her latest projects visit her website. Cast of Wonders is thrilled to welcome back your narrator this week, MK Hobson. You may remember her from my staff pick for 2013, The Giant Who Dreamed of Summer. M.K. Hobson recently decided to follow a time-honored authorial tradition and become a bitter recluse. She swore off all social media and left her website to go to seed. At the moment, she exists only as a voice on short fiction podcasts such as this fine enterprise and Podcastle. She leavens the tedium of her vastly expanded free time with misanthropy, paranoia, and weight lifting. She assures anyone who might be interested that, when she […]

Narrated by Kate Baker Listen above or download here. Show Notes A screenwriter, novelist, and the award-winning author of over one hundred short stories, Matt Wallace spent a decade traveling the western hemisphere as a professional wrestler and combat instructor before retiring to write full-time. He now resides in Los Angeles and bleeds exclusively on the blank page. Matt has been extremely productive the last couple of years. His current project is Slingers, a five ebook series in progress now. Book two is now available on Amazon for Kindle for $2.99 or you can go to Matt-Wallace.com and get books one and two direct from the author for a buck a piece. And let’s just say if you do read them, you may recognize a character or two… This story, Sundae, is also available on Amazon for Kindle for 99 cents. Matt is also contributing a world to Storium, the on-line storytelling game, which is Kickstarting now. Kate Baker’s amazing voice should come as a welcome return treat to our regular listeners. She narrated the excellent A Song for the Season last year in Episode 70. Kate is the Podcast Director and Nonfiction Editor for Hugo award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine. You […]

Authors: Jessica Holscher, Charity Tahmaseb, Michael Strickland and Alexandra Grunberg Narrators: John Cmar, Chloe Yates, Big Anklevich, and Rish Outfield Listen above or download here. Show Notes This is Little Wonders, our collection episodes featuring flash fiction and poetry centered around a theme. This episode we bring you the conclusion of our flash fiction month: Trope Twists! Our first twisted trope — and the story which inspired this Little Wonders collection — is The Hero by Jessica Holscher. Jessica is a freelance writer in Oregon who loves to write fun fantasy stories. She has two novels published by ASJ Publishing: Legend of the Phoenix and Kenneth Randall: Grower. She’s on Twitter as @jessholscher, and you can find out more about her on her Facebook page. The Hero is narrated by the extremely talented John Cmar. John is an infectious diseases physician in Baltimore who splits his time between treating horrors such as syphilis, and molding the next generation of doctors, while repeatedly washing his hands in between. When not herding his five cats or going fanboy over the space endeavors of his wife Moon Ranger Laura, John infectious various podcast and radio projects with his voice. He is the Chief […]