I was six years old when I shifted between worlds for the first time.
My mother and I were in our little apartment in the center of the world, the part that got built first. The world was new then and the nanites still busy about their work. The world has stretched [...]

To: Bigfoot@cascades.us.terra
From: acejones32@avalonlink.nl.luna
Subject: hi big guy
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2122 11:09 AM LST
Dear Bigfoot,
Life on the moon sucks. Dad got home early from the air factory today and I wasn’t done cleaning [...]

This month’s audio fiction is Celadon written by Desirina Boskovich and read by Kate Baker.

 

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The gangly man was running up the street, his long legs pushing through the fresh unplowed snow. He was a stranger; or at least that was her initial impression. In ways that Mary couldn’t quite define, he acted both lost and at home. His face and manner were confused, yet he [...]

If the Senator from New York would do something about her mousey brown hair she could be a real looker, decided the Senator from Rhode Island. She was getting near the Paul Revere section of her speech, and the crowd would be applauding back home in Boise and Baton Rouge in [...]

He was introduced as Johnny Volts, and most guests assumed he was a charlatan—the hostess, after all, was immensely gullible. But some of the guests had seen him before, and they said he was good, lots of fun, very "current"—a joke that got more mileage than it should have.
"Do you need [...]

This month’s audio fiction is A Woman’s Best Friend written by Robert Reed and read by Mary Robinette Kowal.

 

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The room was on the second floor of the dilapidated old building, overlooking what had once been a garden and now was a concrete parking slab filled with cracks and potholes. It had a narrow bed next to a small nightstand with a cheap lamp and an old, battered desk by the [...]

This month’s audio fiction is Idle Roomer written by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn and read by Cat Rambo.

 

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You have Ted Kaczynski down the hall — the Earth Firster who quit tree-spiking to pipe-bomb a forestry convention — the abortion nut who gunned down three girls in Missouri — a half-dozen Arabs, half of whom again you have on phony evidence. I suppose I’m in good company. Or I [...]