Science Fiction & Fantasy

Our third piece of audio fiction for May is “Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 92 - Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds by E. Catherine Tobler [29:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28890)

They say everything in the world has been discovered. They are wrong.

Finding the bodies used to be troubling; it’s worse when the bunkers turn empty, the bodies taken.
The land is filled with bunkers, dark wombs carved into the earth, reinforced with stone, brick, bars. They kept us in small spaces, but we expanded even so, [...]

Our third piece of audio fiction for May is “(R + D) /I = M” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 80 - (R + D) /I = M by E. Catherine Tobler [25:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28481)

Grapes grew differently on Mars and no one minded. This trespass was for science, ask anyone.
Perhaps they shouldn’t have grown at all, but they did, into oblong coils that turned the color of copper under the days of long, if distant, sunshine. We found they were best at night, when they froze into slush.
We would [...]

Close your eyes. As you travel farther away from me, your ship becoming little more than a pinprick of light amid infinite pinpricks of light, I want you to remember me as I was the first time you saw me, in the field. The day I glowed.
All right, it was an interface malfunction, but I [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for November is “(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 74 - (To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky by E. Catherine Tobler [28:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28146)

Our third piece of audio fiction for June is “You Were She Who Abode” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 69 - You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler [26:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (27883)

Cardee Findar dreams, but she’s wide awake.
She’s in the warzone, ashen walls rising around her in broken lines, but buttercream paint seeps through the gray. The pale yellow carries with it the scent of spring, a slice of blue sky, the slow curl of white curtains into a sunlit room. This place is far away; [...]