Escape Pod

By Will McIntosh Read by: Amy H. Sturgis of StarShipSofa Originally published in: Asimov's -- Download and read the text Guest Host: Ben Phillips of Pseudopod "Aw, I know you're awake by now. Come on, sleeping beauty. Talk to me." The last was a whisper, a lover's words, and Mira felt that she had to come awake and open her eyes. She tried to sigh, but no breath came. Her eyes flew open in alarm....

Many people have asked for the edit of on of our Christmas stories, Solitary as an Oyster, and with all the editorial changeover this spring, it ended up sadly on the back burner. But now, six months from Christmas, we give you a treat in the heat of summer (norther hemisphere, anyway): Solitary as an Oyster by Mur Lafferty.

By Mike Resnick Read by: Julie Davis Originally published in: Asimov's -- Download and read the text Guest Host: Alasdair Stuart of Pseudopod Victor can be so annoying. He constantly whistles this tuneless song,and when I complain he apologizes and then starts humming it instead. He never stands up to that ill-mannered little hunchback that he's always sending out on errands. And he's a coward. He...

by Lawrence M. Schoen   Read by Graeme Dunlop  Originally Published in the Footprints anthology  Introduced by Norm Sherman of the Drabblecast None of the first generation of Krenn had lived long enough to reach the site, though none had expected to. The very first Krenn had conceived of this journey in the distant past, dedicating his life and his posterity to the pilgrimage with an ever recyclin...

By N.K. Jemisin Originally recorded by Kate Baker for Clarkesworld Magazine , and is used here with their expressed permission Guest Host: Dave Thompson of Podcastle Her neighbor — the other one, across the hall — helped her figure it out, long before the math geeks finished crunching their numbers. "Watch," he'd said, and laid a deck of cards facedown on her coffee table. (There was coffee in the...

By Vylar Kaftan Read by Mur Lafferty Simultaneously appearing in Lightspeed Magazine , Issue 1, June 1, 2010. I knew you loved me, of course. It was written in your eyes when you looked at me, a physics problem with no clear answer. If an irresistible force meets an immovable object, what happens then? They meet. That's all we know. Relative to each other, they are in contact. From within the obje...

By Robert T. Jeschonek Read by John Cmar. First appeared in Space and Time Magazine , issue 108. For her entire adolescent and adult life up until three weeks ago, Lynda had been the queen of junk food. Aside from the briefest blips of non-junk spending due to occasional failed diets, she had purchased only the most fattening, high-cholesterol, chemical-soaked foods available from grocery stores,...

By Stephen Gaskell. Read by Chris Miller of Unquiet Desperation . Thargus thought the time right. He set the lights to full strength and flailed and gnashed and roared as he'd been practising. He felt rather silly, but the performance seemed to be working. The human, one hand steadying its spin, looked on intensely. It moved the white stick up to its mouth, breathed in, and then stabbed the stick...