From the February 2012 issue
Our first piece of audio fiction for February is “And the Hollow Space Inside” written by Mari Ness and read by Kate Baker.
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From the February 2012 issue
Awakening of Insects, the Third Solar Term:
Ghost Street is long but narrow, like an indigo ribbon. You can cross it in eleven steps, but to walk it from end to end takes a full hour.
At the western end is Lanruo Temple, now fallen into ruin. Inside the temple is a large garden full of fruit [...]
From the February 2012 issue
2249 A.D.
All the young Kirks in Riverside Public High School are assigned to the same Homeroom class. They sit together in the back corner on the far side from the door. They speak only to each other.
The young Kirk on the Moon goes to school with no one. Each of the colonists has a job [...]
From the January 2012 issue
Our final piece of audio fiction for January is “All the Painted Stars” written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker.
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From the January 2012 issue
Our second piece of audio fiction for January is “What Everyone Remembers” written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.
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From the January 2012 issue
I grieve to think of the stars
Our ancestors our gods
Scattered like hairpin wounds
Along the River of Heaven
So tell me
Is it fitting that I spend my days here
A guest in those dark, forlorn halls?
This is the first [...]
From the January 2012 issue
Our first piece of audio fiction for January is “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” written by Aliette de Bodard and read by Kate Baker.
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From the January 2012 issue
I remember being with maman in the cabin of her ship, anchored someplace where the wind was always howling, the temperature was always freezing, and fires were always dancing just beyond the horizon. I spent most of my time inside the mattress where she slept, burrowing as close as I could to maman so that [...]
From the January 2012 issue
They are not the Brights, and so I hesitate to save them. Part of me is eager, and part of me ashamed.
Even through the haze of plasma blasts dispersing over their shields, I recognize the ship as a Bright construct—too much glass, arranged in sharp geometric panels so the entire upper surface [...]
From the December 2011 issue
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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