This month's audio fiction is The Mermaids Singing Each to Each written Cat Rambo and read by Kate Baker.
Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo lives and writes beside eagle-haunted Lake Sammammish in the Pacific Northwest. She has had over two dozen stories published in venues that include Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Chiaroscuro. Recently, her story "Magnificent Pigs' was short-listed for Best American Fantasy and will be reprinted in Best New Fantasy 2, while "The Surgeon's Tale", co-written with Jeff VanderMeer, was recommended by Locus and Tangent Online. She is a member of the writers' groups Horrific Miscue and Codex. She holds an MA in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and was a member of the Clarion West class of 2005.
Website:
www.kittywumpus.net
I've been fascinated by the idea of a future society mining our landfills for recyclable or reusable materials. Seeing that in the ocean warmed me to the story. Obviously it'd be hard to call this a plesant story, due to the subject matter, but it was well told and thought provoking.