Podcast, Original Fiction
Assassins
Our first podcast for February is “Assassins” written by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier and read by Kate Baker.
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In 2001 Jack Skillingstead submitted a story to Stephen King's "On Writing" contest. He won and not long afterward began selling regularly to major science fiction and fantasy markets. To date he has sold more than forty stories to various magazines, Year's Best volumes and original anthologies. In 2003 his story "Dead Worlds" was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and in 2009 his novel Life on The Preservation was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Jack lives in Seattle with his wife, writer Nancy Kress.
Burt Courtier has worked as a documentation manager, business editor, and freelance writer in Japan and the U.S. His non-fiction work appeared in Japan Quarterly. Burt lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter.