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Main Fiction: "The Alien Agent" by James Edward O'Brien This story is original to StarShipSofa. James Edward O'Brien grew up in northern New Jersey where he graduated from Dungeons & Dragons to punk rock to modernist lit and weird fiction. His short stories and poetry have appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show, The Literary Hatchet, and the Triangulation: Dark Skies anthology. He lives in Fa...

Main Fiction: "Deep Water" by Steven Fischer Steve is a resident physician in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. When he's not too busy cracking open a textbook (or a patient's thorax) you can find him exploring the Cascades by bike, boat, or boot. His work has appeared in F&SF , Diabolical Plots , and Grimdark Magazine , among others. You can find more of his work at www.stevenbfisch...

Main Fiction: "Glass Eyes, Steel Hands, Metal Mind" This story is original to StarShipSofa. Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations; her short fiction has appeared in  InterGalactic Medicine Show ,  Compelling Science Fiction , and  Pseudopod ....

Main Fiction: "Beta Child" The story originally appeared in The Colored Lens in Summer 2014. Imogen Cassidy is a bisexual speculative fiction author based in Sydney, Australia. Her short fiction has appeared in Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine . She spends most of her time writing, painting miniatures, listening to podcasts, and walking her dog. Narrated by Tatiana Grey Tatiana i...

Main Fiction: "In Bocca" This story is original to StarShipSofa. P.G. Streeter lives with his wife and son in Maryland, where he teaches high school English. He's been writing since he could hold a pen and telling stories even longer, but he has only recently begun making a serious effort at publishing. His first two published stories can be found in Bards and Sages Quarterly and Daily Science Fic...

Main Fiction: "The Color of My Home is Red Like an Apple" The story originally appeared in Metaphorosis on March 29, 2019 Evan Marcroft is a half-blind yeti person and emerging writer of sci-fi and horror based out of Philadelphia. His works have appeared in a variety of publications, from Pseudopod  to  Strange Horizons , and multiple times in  Metaphorosis . Follow him on twitter...

Main Fiction: "Wheels-Up Time" This story is original to StarShipSofa. G. Scott Huggins now lives in Wisconsin after sojourns in Kansas, Germany, and Russia. He teaches history to high school students, many of whom learn things. He is the author of A Doctor To Dragons  and has also appeared on  Escape Pod  and  Podcastle . You can read his ramblings and rants at  The Logoc...

"A Time for Heroes" by Edward M. Lerner Probably published in Analog Author EDWARD M. LERNER worked in high tech and aerospace for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior vice president, for much of that time writing science fiction as his hobby. Since 2004 he has written full-time. His novels range from near-future technothrillers, like Small Miracles and Energized, to traditional SF,...

Main fiction: "Different Paths" This story is original to StarShipSofa. Henry McFarland is an economist and part time short story writer who lives near Washington, D.C. He has published stories in Andromeda Spaceways and Every Day Fiction. You can find him on Facebook and his twitter handle is @hecon99 Narrated by: Matt Dovey Matt Dovey is very tall and very English and most likely drinking a cup...

Main Fiction: "Alignment"  This story is original to StarShipSofa.    Steve Toase is from England, and now lives in Munich, Germany. He writes regularly for Fortean Times and Folklore Thursday . His story "Call Out" (first published in Innsmouth Magazine ) was reprinted in The Best Horror Of The Year 6 , and two of his stories have just been published in Best Horror of the Year 11 . He...

"The White Bear Problem: Everything You Need to Know About Raising a Telepath in the Modern Age” by Garrett Croker This story is original to StarShipSofa Garrett Croker lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction has appeared on Pseudopod and The NoSleep Podcast, and in Aliterate Magazine , Factor Four Magazine , and various anthologies. Find him on Curious Fictions or follow...

Main Fiction: "A Substitute for Salvation" by Chad Gayle Chad Gayle’s science fiction has appeared in 365 Tomorrows and Perihelion SF. In addition to toiling as an English adjunct at several small colleges, Chad also did a brief stint at Poetry Magazine before he moved to New York, where he ran a photography studio next to Times Square. His photographic work has been published in the New York Time...

Main Fiction: "Uncontrolled Descent" This story is original to StarShipSofa. Adam Shannon's fiction has appeared in Apex , Compelling Science Fiction , and other magazines and anthologies. His story “On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog” appears on Locus Magazine ’s Recommended Reading List for 2018 and is a finalist for the 2019 Sturgeon Award. He is a graduate of Clarion West 2017. Narrate...

Main Fiction: "Number One Hit" Elad Haber is originally from New York City, spent his college years in San Francisco, and currently lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife and daughter. He works in IT and tries to find time everyday to write. He has recent publications at Strange Constellations and Truancy.   Narrated by: Jonathan Danz Jonathan Danz exists in a parallel dimension that looks su...

Main Fiction: "Instruments of War" by Andrew Reichard This story is original to StarShipSofa Andrew Reichard is an author who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His short fiction has appeared, or will soon appear, in journals such as The Collagist, Shoreline of Infinity, LampLight Magazine, MYTHIC, Silver Blade, and others.   Narrated by: Brian Rollins Brian is a voice actor and podcaster livin...

StarShipSofa No 601 James Beamon Originally published in Penumbra  James Beamon served in the US Air Force, was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and has over twenty years worth of hilarious marriage stories but assumed no one would know unless he could get his bio in print.  So he worked with cheetah speed and weasel scruples to get stories published in places such as F&SF, Lightspee...

Originally published in Flicker Main Fiction: “Once There was a Way” by Chris Barnham Chris Barnham spent a long time working for the British government, but now just makes stuff up for himself. Chris has a novel out, with US publisher, Filles Vertes Publishing. It’s called Fifty-One, and features a time-traveling cop marooned in 1940s London, forced to choose between saving the future or the woma...

Main Fiction: What Nightmares Are You Living by Gwendolyn N Nix This story is original to StarShip Sofa. Raised in the wilds of countless library stacks, Gwendolyn N. Nix has always been a born seeker of adventure. She saw her first beached humpback whale on a windy day in New York, met a ghost angel in a Paris train station, and had Odin answer her prayers on a mountain in Scotland. Her short fic...

Main Fiction: "A Once-Held Truth of a Different Sort" by Andrew Wilmot This story is original to StarShipSofa. Andrew Wilmot is an award-winning writer and editor based out of Toronto, Ontario. He is Co-Publisher and Co-EIC of the online magazine Anathema: Spec from the Margins . Books he’s worked on have themselves taken home multiple awards from the Sunburst Awards, the Eisner Awards, and the Sh...

Main Fiction: "The Convincer" by Eleanor R. Wood This story was first published in Galaxy's Edge (November 1, 2018) Eleanor R. Wood’s stories have appeared in Pseudopod , Flash Fiction Online , Deep Magic , Daily Science Fiction , and various anthologies, among other places. She writes and eats licorice from the south coast of England, where she lives with her husband, two marvelous dogs, and enou...

AD Free StarShipSofa No 596 K.G. Anderson StarShipSofa No 596 K.G. Anderson.mp3 Main Fiction: "Rowboat" Originally published in Metamorphosis  K.G. Anderson is a Seattle-based writer, gardener, dancer, and cat-herder. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines and anthologies ranging from Galaxy's Edge and Weirdbook to the B Cubed Press Alternative Truths series, and are...

Main Fiction: "No Regrets on Forth Street" by Lauren C. Teffaeu Originally published in Perihelion Lauren C. Teffeau was born and raised on the East Coast, educated in the South, employed in the Midwest, and now lives and dreams in the Southwest USA. When she was younger, she poked around in the back of wardrobes, tried to walk through mirrors, and always kept an eye out for secret passages, fairy...

Main Fiction: "There's Sometimes Light Down the Street" by Yaroslav Barsoukov This story is original to StarShipSofa. Yaroslav Barsukov is a software engineer and a connoisseur of strong alcoholic beverages--but also, surprisingly, a member of SFWA and Codex (how did that happen?). His stories have appeared in  Galaxy's Edge  and  Nature: Futures , among others. At some point in his...

Main Fiction: "Alienated" by Richard Webb This story is original to StarShipSofa. Richard Webb writes long and short SFFH fiction; writes screenplays (with 6 short films produced to date, winning several film festival awards); co-wrote/co-hosted a weekly indie radio music show for 2 years and was shortlisted for the BBC Writer's Room 2016. He acted as Events Coordinator of the BFS for 2 years and...

Main Fiction: “Daddy’s Little Girl” by Jennifer Donohue Originally published in Syntax and Salt Jennifer R. Donohue grew up at the Jersey Shore and now lives in central New York with her husband and her Doberman, where she works at her local library and facilitates a writing workshop. Her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Truancy, Luna Station Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her no...