Our second piece of audio fiction for November is “The Smell of Orange Groves” written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 62 - The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar [43:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9468)

On the roof the solar panels were folded in on themselves, still asleep, yet uneasily stirring, as though they could sense the imminent coming of the sun. Boris stood on the edge of the roof. The roof was flat and the building’s residents, his father’s neighbors, had, over the years, planted and expanded an assortment [...]

Our mid-month audio fiction for February is “The Language of the Whirlwind” written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 41 - The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar [32:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10689)

The sky was the color of ash and the Whistler has been at it again: the shrill sound of his whistle rang like a curse down the abandoned street. Damn kid, the priest thought. Damn stupid kid. It was a miracle he was still alive.
It was a miracle. The boy was [...]

1. Bonsai
It’s a beautiful world, easily worth killing for, but what would be the point? The world, encased in vacuum and glass, is blue-white, a miniature Earth, with a marble-sized sun rotating around it. It has a tiny atmosphere, tiny, lovingly-sculpted seas, three continents, numerous tiny islands, tectonic plate activity, miniature [...]

When they came for Hershele Ostropol it was not at night but in the middle of the afternoon, and they came quiet and with no warning, with just a polite knock on the door. He had taken it to be the postman, carrying a late delivery of one of his special magazines; but the two [...]