Our third piece of audio fiction for January is “Effigy Nights&rdsquo; written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 76 - Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee [35:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8487)

They are connoisseurs of writing in Imulai Mokarengen, the city whose name means inkblot of the gods.
The city lies at the galaxy’s dust-stranded edge, enfolding a moon that used to be a world, or a world that used to be a moon; no one is certain anymore. In the mornings its skies are radiant with [...]

Our third piece of audio fiction for October is “The Battle of Candle Arc” written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 73 - The Battle of Candle Arc by Yoon Ha Lee [52:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9203)

General Shuos Jedao was spending his least favorite remembrance day with Captain-magistrate Rahal Korais. There was nothing wrong with Korais except that he was the fangmoth’s Doctrine officer, and even then he was reasonable for a Rahal. Nevertheless, Doctrine observed remembrances with the ranking officer, which meant that Jedao had to make sure he didn’t [...]

There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted.
Hello, Inanna. You have seven inventory slots, all full. The seventh contains your heart, which cannot be removed. We will do our best [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for August is “Conservation of Shadows” written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 59 - Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee [31:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10017)

For Charibdys
It is not true that the dead cannot be folded. Square becomes kite becomes swan; history becomes rumor becomes song. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth.
What the paper-folding diagrams fail to mention is that each fold enacts itself upon the secret marrow of your ethics, the axioms of [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for January is “Ghostweight” written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 52 - Ghostweight by Yoon Ha Lee [63:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (11034)

One of the oldest tales we tell in Cho is of two dragons, twinborn and opposite in all desires. One dragon was as red as Earth, the other as blue as Heaven: day and night, fire and water, passion and calculation. They warred, as dragons do, and the universe was born [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for April is “Between Two Dragons” written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 43 - Between Two Dragons by Yoon Ha Lee [33:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10985)