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CatsCast

Fiction EN ↓ 33 episodes

CatsCast publishes fun speculative cat stories. We hope that each story leaves its cat-loving listeners a little happier -- or at least amused or hopeful -- after listening than they were before.

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CatsCast 5: Daisies 04.08.2022 49:38

August 2022. Author : Marshall J Moore Narrator : S. Kay Nash Host : Laura Pearlman Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie Daisies is a CatsCast original. Content Notes: Grief is a major theme of this story. The story also depicts the peaceful death of a beloved cat. Daisies by Marshall J Moore I believe I was the only person on Earth who stayed outdoors on that golden evening, watching the world...

CatsCast 4 preview: The Cat 01.07.2022 2:48

Laura Pearlman (Host), Kat Day (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production) The cat followed him home. Tomas Shine spent three and a half minutes in the stairwell hyperventilating. He heard Mrs Helen Acres, the widow from Unit Two, clatter and batter her way out her door, shopping bags in hand. She spotted the cat outside the stairway and reversed soundl...

CatsCast 3: What Cats (and Dragons) Do 04.06.2022 32:19

Author: KT Bryski Narrator: Rish Outfield Host: Laura Pearlman Cat-of-the-month photograph: Callie, by Kimberley and Jeremiah Daly Podcast cover art: Matt Dovey Audio production: Wilson Fowlie What Cats (and Dragons) Do is a CatsCast original. Far away in the hill country, there lived a small black cat. Though people enough lived in a nearby town, he belonged only to himself. Sometimes he climbed...

CatsCast 2 preview: Tin Opener 04.05.2022 1:04

Charlotte Platt (Author), Wilson Fowlie (Narrator), Bill Shields (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production). They killed my tin opener. The humans called her Margaret, but what do humans know? She was my tin opener. More than that, she was a witch, and a good one. A crone for the village, a sharp mind, and a healer. She knew the best way to mend broken b...

CatsCast 1: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner 01.04.2022 39:51

Author: Jennifer Hudak Narrator: Alethea Kontis Host: Laura Pearlman Cat-of-the-month photograph: Steve Gatlin Podcast cover art: Matt Dovey Audio production: Wilson Fowlie Laurie stands in front of a door. It's old but solid, as many old things are. Whatever paint once covered it has long since worn away, and the wood beneath is striped, and furred with splinters. It is her very first door, of he...

CatsCast Preview 23.03.2022 2:31

CatsCast debuts April 1! Here's a preview of Season 1, Episode 1, featuring The Cat Lady and the Petitioner by Jennifer Hudak, read by Alethea Kontis. If you support the Escape Artists Patreon at the "Premium Content" level, you can hear every episode on the EA Premium Content feed . Some episodes will also be available on the CatsCast public feed. Visit us at: https://escapeartists.net/catscast/...

From the Archives: CatsCast 341 (April Fools 2021) - Bargain by Sarah Gailey 21.03.2022 26:06

This is the 341st episode of the imaginary version of CatsCast. It ran on all the Escape Artists podcasts on April 1, 2021. so if you were listening to any of them at the time, you may have heard this one already.

From the Archives: CatsCast 289 (2020 April Fool's episode) - The Thing in the Basement by Gerri Leen 21.03.2022 31:30

This is the 289th episode of a long-running imaginary podcast called CatsCast. It ran on all the Escape Artists podcasts on April 1, 2020, so if you were listening to any of them at the time, you may have heard this one already. We also announced that one of our (imaginary) 2019 episodes won an award: "The Cats That Fall on You From Nowhere" was awarded the American Surrealist Society's coveted In...