Our third piece of audio fiction for December is part two of “Silently and Very Fast” written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker. If you missed the earlier parts of this story, we recommend that you listen to parts one and two first.

 

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Our second piece of audio fiction for December is “In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems” written by Chris Stabback and read by Kate Baker.

 

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Emily Parker
At the edge of Deacon College on Tunel Five, the statue of Amadou Qaramanli stands in an empty, sunlit square. A lab technician, he was born in Tripoli, and began working in the expansion of the Earth Empire at the age of sixteen, dying on a planet ninety seven percent water [...]

I live in my cockpit. I piss in a bottle and I cross the vastest vastness in my shining tin can. I’ve seen more of nothing than just about anyone, but if I’m telling you about it then you aren’t really here, because it’s just me out here. Every month or so I jerk off [...]

Continued from Part Two
Part III: The Elephant’s Soul
It is admitted that there are things He cannot do such as making
one equal to two, but should we not believe that He has freedom
to confer a soul on an [...]

Our first piece of audio fiction for December is “Sirius” written by Ben Peek and read by Kate Baker.

 

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Our third piece of audio fiction for November is part two of “Silently and Very Fast” written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker. If you missed part one, you can listen to it here.

 

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

 

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Our first piece of audio fiction for November is “A Militant Peace” written by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell and read by Mike Allen.

 

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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
—Albert Einstein
For Nong Mai Thuy, a Vietnamese Sergeant in the Marine Police, the invasion of North Korea starts with the parachute-snapping violence of a High Altitude, Low Opening jump deep in the middle of the inky [...]