Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris are well known for their renegotiations of what’s called cinéma vérité—the notion that truth can be found through footage in the absence of a blatantly intervening narrator or narrative. When these documentarians sat down in 2008 with Believer Magazine, Herzog observed that Morris’s recently released Standard Operating Procedure had [...]

Our second piece of audio fiction for November is “Aquatica” written by Maggie Clark and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 74 - Aquatica by Maggie Clark [28:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (11762)

When Host laughed, her esca wriggled, and the gills behind her pectoral fins vented hard enough to stir up the silt. Organ tumbled in the waste-stream’s wake, but kept one tiny black eye fixed on her bobbing, bioluminescent beacon—the first he had seen in six turns of the current along the foreign reef.
“I almost ate [...]