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Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Rajan Khanna join us to discuss Season 1 of the HBO series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel set 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's Dune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer join us to discuss the science fiction noir movies Dark City, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor, Looker, and Alphaville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer join us to discuss the movies Gattaca, The Truman Show, Simone, In Time, and Anon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Main fiction: "Movie Night" by Matthew KresselMatthew Kressel's many works of short fiction have or will soon appear in Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Tor.com/Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in many other publications and Year's Best anthologies. His far-future novel Space Trucker Jess (Fairwood Press) is scheduled for late 2025. And his Mars-based science fiction novella The Rainseekers (Tordotcom) will appear in early 2026. Alongside Ellen Datlow, he runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. And he is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, used by many of the largest fiction publishers today. Find more at his website: matthewkressel.net.This story is original to StarShipSofa.Narrated by: Will StaglWill Stagl lives in his adopted home of Tucson Arizona where he is a creative professional by day and proudly recruits talented voice actors for Starship Sofa whenever duty calls. He dedicates the narration of this story to the loving memory of his Mother, Nancy StaglFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matthew Kressel, Anthony Ha, and Sara Lynn Michener join us to discuss Arthur C. Clarke's classic novel Rendezvous with Rama, about astronauts exploring a giant alien spacecraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Work Life Balance by Cara Mast, Read by Tonia Ransom Amerie receives an email at work that Return-to-Work is being mandated for her office. This is a problem, as she has been secretly living in her office for the last nine months because she can't afford both rent and her out of pocket payments for her curse-based illness. As a retired tall-ship sailor, a failed academic, and a reluctant finance professional, Cara Mast gets stopped constantly in New York City and asked for directions. Cara spends their free time drinking coffee, binging words, and yelling about the Philadelphia Eagles in bars they've thankfully not yet been kicked out of. Your Future Life is Pending by Matthew Kressel, read by Tonia Ransom Technician Martha feeds stray dogs in her back alley, tends her sick father, and revives the unconscious, rich users of hi-tech gaming "couches." The game is the reason humans never made it to Mars, so is she wrong to wreck a little havoc? Matthew Kressel is a three-time Nebula Award finalist, whose work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and has been translated into nine languages. He is the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series with Ellen Datlow in Manhattan. And he is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, in use by many of the largest SFF publishers today. His website is matthewkressel.net. Tonia Ransom is a horror writer and World Fantasy Award-winning creator of horror podcasts NIGHTLIGHT and Afflicted. Tonia has been scaring people since the second grade, when she wrote her first story based on Michael Myers. She lives in Austin, Texas. You can follow Tonia @missdefying on all the socials.
The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on November 8th, 2023, with guests Cadwell Turnbull & Victor Manibo. Hosted by Matthew Kressel and Mercurio D. Rivera, who was subbing for Ellen Datlow. We need your help to... Continue Reading →
The Stuph File Program Featuring Tim Shields, founder of The Photography Academy; Ann Charles, author of TimeReaping In Deadwood; & Matthew Kressel, creator of the Moksha submissions system Download Tim Shields is an award-winning landscape photographer and founder of The Photography Academy. He created a four-step system that he teaches to photographers worldwide for taking great landscape pictures. Ann Charles is the author of TimeReaping In Deadwood, the 13th book in her Deadwood series. Matthew Kressel is a writer, coder and the creator of the Moksha submissions system for writers. He first created the system for a magazine that he was publishing called Sybil's Garage. Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 800 selections to choose from! This week's guest slate is presented by Patrick Henry Charles, a broadcaster, musician and web content creator.
Here's the audio from the October 11th, 2023 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, with guests David D. Levine & Matthew Kressel. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by clicking here! David D. Levine David... Continue Reading →
The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on September 13, 2023, with guests Benjamin Percy & Josh Rountree. Hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel. We need your help to stay funded! Support the reading series by... Continue Reading →
Every week, we are highlighting a panel from TBRCon2023, looking back on the amazing variety of panels that we had the honor of hosting. This week, join moderator/author Jonathan Nevair and authors Cat Rambo, Ruthanna Emrys, Matt Kressel and Sarena Ulibarri for a TBRCon2023 author panel on "Hopepunk & Optimistic Futures." SUPPORT THE SHOW: - Patreon (for exclusive bonus episodes, author readings, book giveaways and more) - Merch shop (for a selection of tees, tote bags, mugs, notebooks and more) - Subscribe to the FanFiAddict YouTube channel, where this and every other episode of the show is available in full video - Rate and review SFF Addicts on your platform of choice, and share us with your friends EMAIL US WITH YOUR QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: sffaddictspod@gmail.com ABOUT THE PANELISTS: Jonathan Nevair is an art historian and professor, as well as the author of The Wind Tide Trilogy and Stellar Instinct. Find Jonathan on Twitter, Amazon or his personal website. Cat Rambo is a Nebula Award-winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Their works include You Sexy Thing, Beasts of Tabat and more. Find Cat on Twitter, Amazon or their personal website. Ruthanna Emrys is a science fiction and fantasy writer best known for A Half-Built Garden and The Innsmouth Legacy series (The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots). Find Ruthanna on Twitter, Amazon or her personal website. Matthew Kressel is the award-nominated author of the Worldmender series, as well as an abundance of short stories. Find Matt on Twitter, Amazon or his personal website. Sarena Ulibarri is s a speculative fiction author and editor. As an anthologist, she has curated and published Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, and Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures. Find Sarena on Twitter, Amazon or her personal website. FOLLOW SFF ADDICTS: FanFiAddict Book Blog Twitter Instagram MUSIC: Intro: "Into The Grid" by MellauSFX Outro: “Galactic Synthwave” by Divion --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sff-addicts/message
In this episode, Diane and Alan chat with author Matthew Kressel and Author/Editor/Publisher Catherine Lundoff. They discuss Matt's new novel Queen of Static, expectations when marketing books, and greening your office. They also announce that audio columns will be released seperately as their own mini-episodes for future episodes.
What is canon, and why does it matter? Dogs that know when their owners are coming home. Discussion with Matthew Kressel about canon. LINKS: Matthew KresselOur Man On The Hill by Matthew KresselMAPSOC.ORGThe Saint Nicholas ProjectFollow us on Twitter: Sumo / Smokestack
Join host Adrian M. Gibson and authors Sam J. Miller, Claire North, Matthew Kressel and Premee Mohamed as they discuss climate change and climate fiction. During the panel they explore using climate change in fictional worldbuilding, channeling anxiety through optimism, challenges related with climate change and much more. About the Authors: Sam J. Miller is the award winning author of Blackfish City, The Blade Between and numerous short stories. Find Sam on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon and his personal website. Claire North is the award winning author of Notes from the Burning Age, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, 84K and more. Find Claire on Twitter, Amazon and her personal website. Matthew Kressel is the award nominated author of the Worldmender series, as well as an abundance of short stories. Find Matthew on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon and his personal website. Premee Mohamed is an environmental scientist and author of Beneath the Rising, The Annual Migration of Clouds and more. Find Premee on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon and her personal website. Find Us Online: FanFiAddict Blog Discord Twitter Instagram Music: Intro: "FanFiAddict Theme (Short Version)" by Astronoz Interlude 1: "The Wind" by Astronoz The Broken Binding Ad & Interlude 2: “Crescendo” by Astronoz Outro: “Cloudy Sunset” by Astronoz SFF Addicts is part of FanFiAddict, so check us out at https://fanfiaddict.com for the latest in book reviews, essays and all things sci-fi and fantasy, as well as the full episode archive for the podcast and the blog post accompanying this episode. Follow us on Instagram or Twitter @SFFAddictsPod. You can also email us directly at sffaddictspod@gmail.com with queries, comments or whatever comes to mind. Also, please subscribe, rate and review us on your platform of choice, and share us with your friends. It helps a lot, and we greatly appreciate it.
Here's the audio and video from the September 15th, 2021 livestream with guests Ellen Klages and Mari Ness. Rajan Khanna guest hosted for Matthew Kressel.
Tonight we’re chatting with Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren, authors of Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired By Antique Tools. Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for.The publishers at IFWG would like you to know that if you would like to enter a drawing for a free print (or mobi/epub) copy tonight’s book, all you need to do is subscribe to the IFWG newsletter and fill out details for the drawing – just go to ifwgaustralia.com/treasures. About the authors:Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She’s judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards.She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award.Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited many anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year series and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and the reprint anthologies Edited By and Body Shocks. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre” and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel.
Tonight we’re chatting with Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren, authors of Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired By Antique Tools. Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for.The publishers at IFWG would like you to know that if you would like to enter a drawing for a free print (or mobi/epub) copy tonight’s book, all you need to do is subscribe to the IFWG newsletter and fill out details for the drawing – just go to ifwgaustralia.com/treasures. About the authors:Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She’s judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards.She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award.Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited many anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year series and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and the reprint anthologies Edited By and Body Shocks. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre” and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel.
This episode features "Your Future is Pending" written by Matthew Kressel. Published in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kressel_11_19 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld
This episode features "Your Future is Pending" written by Matthew Kressel. Published in the November 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kressel_11_19 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld
This is the second of a series of interviews conducted at ReaderCon 2019. In this episode we discuss ReaderCon memories and politics in Science Fiction & Fantasy with Scott H. Andrews, editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and author Matthew Kressel.
Share BBQ brisket with Matthew Kressel as we discuss the story of his accepted by an editor within an hour and then praised by Joyce Carol Oates, the ways in which famed editor Alice Turner was the catalyst which helped turn him into a writer, why after publishing only short stories for 10 years he eventually published a novel, how comments from his Altered Fluid writing workshop helped make his Nebula-nominated "The Sounds of Old Earth" a better story, why a writing self-help book made him swear off those kinds of self-help books, the secrets to having a happy, heathy writing career, why he's grown to be OK with reading bad reviews, what he learned from reading slush at Sybil’s Garage, and much more.
Coming UpGood Evening: 00:42T. R. North's Real People (Tales To Terrify original) as read by Joe Sammarco: 03:36Matthew Kressel's The Words That Maketh Murder (Tales To Terrify original) as read by Maurine McLean: 15:15Pleasant Dreams: 49:17Pertinent LinksThe District of Wonders Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/districtofwondersGhost Island @ Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostislandcomic/ghost-island-1-3-a-supernatural-horror-series-0T. R. North: https://northonthegulf.wordpress.com/T. R. North @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/northonthegulfMatthew Kressel: https://www.matthewkressel.net/Matthew Kressel @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattkressel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Speculative Fiction author, Matthew Kressel, joins Rajan and Devin to discuss writing, Blade Runner, television and more. Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula Award-nominated writer and World Fantasy Award-nominated editor. His short story "The Last Novelist" is a 2017 Nebula Award finalist, his story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” was a 2014 Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story. And his story “The Sounds of Old Earth” was a 2013 Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story. The story also made the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List. His short stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Clarkesworld, io9.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, Apex Magazine, and the anthologies Cyber World, Naked City, After, The People of the Book, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere. His first novel, King of Shards, was hailed as “Majestic, resonant, reality-twisting madness,” from NPR Books. Kressel is currently writing a near-future Young Adult thriller. Kressel co-hosts the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the famous KGB Bar alongside veteran speculative-fiction editor Ellen Datlow. The monthly series highlights luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction.
This is our first ever Bonus Episode! In this episode we catch up with most of our guests from 2017 AND also talk to Matthew Kressel. In the meantime, we manage to drink many libations, talk about the similarities between programming and writing, and discuss the best novels, anthologies, shows, and movies of the year. Our guests this episode include: Mathew Kressel: https://www.matthewkressel.net/ Marissa Landrigan: https://marissalandrigan.com/ Frank Oreto: https://www.facebook.com/frank.oreto Douglas Gwilym: https://www.facebook.com/douglasgwilym/about Patrick Stahl: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.stahl.56 Intro/Outro by Father Flamethrower: https://www.facebook.com/FatherFlamethrower/ Extra music by Hendecatope: https://hendecatope.bandcamp.com/
Nightmare Magazine - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
She stands on the side of the road in the dewy high grass and waits. She wanders among the tangled weeds heavy with crickets, and waits. She drifts among the gathering fireflies blinking their yellow-green light into the darkening forest. And waits, and waits, and waits. They will come, she knows. They will come and see her and take her away from this dreadful place. They will clothe her and feed her and wrap her in a warm blanket, and everything will be perfect again. She knows it's only a matter of time. | copyright 2017 by Matthew Kressel. Narrated by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The following audio was recorded live on December 18, 2017 at the KGB Bar as part of the Mad Hatters and March Hares reading*, with guests Richard Bowes, Kris Dikeman, Matthew Kressel, Genevieve Valentine, Ysabeau Wilce, and Katherine Vaz. About the anthology Master anthologist Ellen Datlow presents: Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the […]
In this episode we discuss "Love Engine Optimization by Matthew Kressel with our guest Brad Warner. We also discuss privacy trends, Buddhist thought on desire, and how to pronounce Dogen. You can find this episode's story at Lightspeed Magazine: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-engine-optimization/ You can find Brad's website here: http://hardcorezen.info/ You can find Brad's books here: http://hardcorezen.info/store You can find more about Matthew Kressel here: http://www.matthewkressel.net/
LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)
I rooted her system on the first day. It was the only way to be sure. Sure that she'd love me. Step by matching step, I walk her under the boughs of great elms in Prospect Park, while the slanting sun passes through the tangled mesh of leaves to dapple her smiling face. When her heart rate spikes, I know she's excited. When it slows, she's bored. | Copyright 2017 by Matthew Kressel. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
The following audio was recorded on November 16, 2016 at the KGB Bar with guests John Langan & Matthew Kressel. Matthew Kressel’s audio is not included in this podcast. John Langan John Langan is author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows. He’s also published two collections, The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other […]
Nightmare Magazine - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
I first saw the demon the Sunday after you died. It was 11:53 p.m. Just seven minutes until I would have grabbed my knapsack and biked home to Mom and bed and a life of sound sleep. That night the flurries were drifting down like nuclear ash. | Copyright 2015 by Matthew Kressel. Narrated by Paul Boehmer.
Nightmare Magazine - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
I first saw the demon the Sunday after you died. It was 11:53 p.m. Just seven minutes until I would have grabbed my knapsack and biked home to Mom and bed and a life of sound sleep. That night the flurries were drifting down like nuclear ash. | Copyright 2015 by Matthew Kressel. Narrated by Paul Boehmer.
This month’s cover art is Plains of a Different World by Leon Tukker. For more of his work, visit www.artstation.com/artist/leontukker or tryingtofly.deviantart.com/ Novel excerpt: “King of Shards” by Matthew Kressel The demon had saved Daniel, but the fool didn’t know it yet. They fell. They fell. No matter existed in this place before places, not a single atom in this void of voids. If he had a mouth to scream, the demon would have, because he remembered this terror, remembered tumbling into the Abyss, when the Creator had ripped his world apart and tossed her screaming children into the Great Deep. Our mother, the demon thought. Our destroyer. The blind idiot tumbled beside him, a spark of unsteady light, flashing in panic as... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to Episode 144 of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans. In this episode we talk about reading series and short stories with the legendary editor Ellen Datlow and author/editor Matthew Kressel, who co-host the KGB Fantastic Fiction series in New York City, looking at how each […]
The following audio was recorded live, July 15, 2015 at the KGB Bar with guests Jeffrey Ford and David Edison. Jeffrey Ford’s reading is not included in this podcast. FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Jeffrey Ford Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The […]
The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on June 17th, 2015 with guests Dale Bailey & Simon Strantzas. Matthew Kressel was traveling, so Kristine Dikeman co-hosted in his place. Dale Bailey Dale Bailey’s new collection, The End of the End of Everything, came out in the spring. A novel, The Subterranean Season, […]
Our first podcast for May is “The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies” written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
Our first piece of audio fiction for November is “Cameron Rhyder’s Legs” written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”More info »
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”More info »
The following audio was recorded on August 20th, 2014 at the KGB Bar in Manhattan with guests Karen Heuler and Veronica Schanoes. Mercurio D. Rivera guest hosted, subbing for Matthew Kressel. Karen Heuler’s stories and novels have won an O. Henry award, been short-listed for the Bellwether, Shirley Jackson, Iowa short fiction award, and others. […]
Our first piece of audio fiction for May is “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)
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-sealed storefronts. Last week they hauled the Pyramids of Giza to New Earth. The week before, Stonehenge. The week before that, Versailles and a good chunk of the Great Wall. But the minor landmarks are too expensive to move, the NEU says, and so New Paltz's Huguenot Street, seven centuries old, will remain here, to be sliced to pieces in a few months when the planetary lasers begin to cut the Earth apart. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #59 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”More info »
Our second piece of audio fiction for March is "The History Within Us" written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.