I glance in the glass wall’s reflection. It faces me twenty feet away as I walk up the stairs, marble slab steps showing grainy pink underneath my red sneakers. My fingers clutch the railing’s chrome. I’m feeling shaky, that internal quiver where your body announces that it may not be up to this.
I focus [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for May is “Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know” written by Cat Rambo and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 56 - Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo [38:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9853)

Niko leaned behind me in the cabin, raising his voice to be heard over the roar of engine and water, "When you Choose, which is it going to be? Boy or girl?"
I would have answered, if I thought it really mattered to him. But we were off shore by then, headed [...]

This month’s audio fiction is The Mermaids Singing Each to Each written Cat Rambo and read by Kate Baker.

 

 The Mermaids Singing Each to Each by Cat Rambo [42:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (11926)

The LED bug kicks feebly, trying to push itself away from the wall. Its wings are rounds of mica, and the hole in its carapace where someone has tacked it to the graying boards reveals cogs and gears, almost microscopic in their dimension. The light from its underside is the cobalt [...]

This month’s audio fiction is Worm Within written and read by Cat Rambo.

 

 Worm Within by Cat Rambo [10:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (14989)

Even Duga the Prestidigitator, who never pays much attention to anything outside his own hands, raised an eyebrow when I announced I’d be hooking the manticore up to my wagon.
“Isn’t that dangerous?” my husband Rik said. He steepled his fingers, regarding me.
“The more we have pulling, the faster we get there,” I pointed out. “And [...]