It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton

Wil sits down with Maria Dong. Wil previously read Maria’s story, The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han, on the show which dropped on April 1, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.mariadong.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir...

"Anchorage" by Samantha Mills, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine, Issue 36, September/October 2020 To learn more about this author, visit: https://samtasticbooks.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael...

Wil sits down with Lavie Tidhar. Wil previously read Lavie’s story, The Portal Keeper on the show which dropped on May 13, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content E...

"If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of...

Wil sits down with Daniel H. Wilson. Wil previously read Daniel’s story "SuperMAX" on the show which dropped on March 18, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.danielhwilson.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor...

“Teeth" by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Kaleidotrope (2025) It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV. Special thanks to...

Wil sits down with Mary Robinette Kowal. He also reads a piece of her flash fiction, “With Her Serpent Locks”  Content warning: the episode contains sounds of rumbling and thunder, and mention of snakes. To learn more about this author, please visit: https://maryrobinettekowal.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris La...

"As One Listens to the Rain" by Andrea Chapela, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny (2022) translated by Emma Törzs Original Spanish published by Editorial Almadía (2020) as part of the short story collection “Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio” It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane....

"The Portal Keeper” by Lavie Tidhar, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit:  Uncanny Magazine, 2022 (text) Uncanny Magazine, 2022 (audio) The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 2 (text and audio) Podcastle, 2024 (audio) To learn more about the author, please visit: https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our pro...

"Phoenix Tile" by Guan Un, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Khoreo (including audio version): https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/phoenix-tile/  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://guanun.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our...

"To Carry You Inside You" by Tia Tashiro, narrated by Wil Today, we are going to visit a future where child actors are still exploited, still used up and discarded, facing an adult life without purpose, that they were never prepared for, because nobody cared what happened to them past an arbitrary age. We will meet a young woman who is doing her best to assemble the pieces of a stolen childhood in...

"Bird-Girl Builds a Machine" by Hannah Yang, narrated by Wil Today, we have a beautiful story for you that is all about love, specifically the kind of love we have for our children. And when we're finished, I think you'll want to hug your kids, or reach out and tell them you love them. I know that I did. This is: Bird Girl Builds A Machine. Original Publication Credit: Clarkesworld Magazine To lea...

"Heathman Ldg" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheerfully playing for an audience of none. A paper ticket in your hand, in an airport departure lounge that hasn't seen a passenger in fifty years, the board still updating flight information, with whirling letters. The front desk in the empty hotel...

"The Nine Scents of Sorrow" by Jordan Taylor, narrated by Wil This week's story features one of history's memorable, real-life villains, and while this isn't her story, directly, when she tells it, she is the hero, and so very, very justified. And as much as I hate it, I gotta tell you that she isn't wrong.  Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine Issue 35, July 2020 To learn more about the...

"The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han" by Maria Dong, narrated by Wil As long as we've existed, humans have told each other stories to understand and interpret the world around us. There are as many different myths about the sun and the moon as there are different cultures and mythmakers, in some places, even the wind gets a name and a backstory from the ancient artists who sought to understand ou...

“End of Play” by Chelsea Sutton, narrated by Wil To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.chelseasutton.com/ To purchase The Body audiobook, please click here: https://bit.ly/3NZd3DT Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from The Body by Stephen King, read by Wil Wheaton. Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.  It's Storytime wa...

"SuperMAX" by Daniel H. Wilson, narrated by Wil One of the biggest lies set into the foundation of America is that we are the land of the free, a nation of fair and impartially adjudicated laws that seeks not to punish, but to rehabilitate, the almost two million of our citizens we imprison, some of them in conditions so horiffic, they shock the conscience. Let's imagine a future together, one in...

"Notes From a Pyre" by Amal Singh, narrated by Wil In just a moment, I will take you to the far future, where we will meet a dead man who spent his life traveling the universe, chronicling the grieving and funerary practices of extra-terrestrial species. It turns out that death, and grief, and loss, aren't just human conditions; they are literally universal experiences. His grandson, no stranger t...

“The God of Minor Troubles” by Megan Chee, narrated by Wil This is a re-release from season one of the podcast. We have also added the original Coda from Wil to the back of the episode, which is a weekly Patreon exclusive for every episode.  To learn more about the author, please visit:  https://meganchee.carrd.co/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the co...

"Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe" by Beston Barnett, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Nov 2023 issue of Strange Horizons It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and maste...

"The Last Lucid Day" by Dominique Dickey, narrated by Wil This week's story hits extremely close to home for me. It's about a son,and the father who let him down. It's about the desperate search for aconnection, before The Last Lucid Day. Original Publication Credit: The story was simultaneously published by Lightspeed and io9; it's also been reprinted in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1...

"Lily, The Immortal" by Kylie Lee Baker, narrated by Wil In the age of parasocial relationships and Influencer Culture, it's alltoo easy to convince ourselves that we know someone we've never met,when what we actually know is the carefully curated content they chooseto share. The connection we feel to that content is real and it's valid,but that's where the relationship really ought to end. See, b...

"We Will Weather One Another Somehow" by Kristina Ten, narrated by Wil There are billions of people on planet earth, a number so huge, only afew of us can truly grasp its enormity. I am not one of those people,but I am one who beat the odds and found my person, the one in a billionchance for a perfect match. We have built an incredible life together,that I am grateful for every single day. When tw...

"Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality" by Rati Mehrotra, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Lightspeed Magazine, November 2020 / Previous audio version: Audio reprint in CatsCast episode 6, September 2022 To learn more about the author, please visit: https://ratiwrites.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our produ...

"Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt, narrated by Wil Aesop, of the Fables, wrote that no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. If you've listened to me for any amount of time, you know how committed I am to choosing kindness, celebrating kindness, and encouraging kindness in others. Today's Storytime is all about kindness with a capital K. It's also about Family with a capital F. Now, to me, Fami...