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PodCastle 544: Waters of Versailles - Part 3 Author : Kelly Robson Narrator : Heath Miller Host : Jen R. Albert Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally publishing at tor.com. You can buy Kelly Robson's book, Gods, Monste… Sylvain stood on the roof of the north wing, the gardens spread out before him. The fountains jetted high and strong, fifteen hundred nozzles ticking over reliably as clockwork, the water spouts throwing flickering shadows in the low evening light. …

PodCastle 565, ARTEMIS RISING: I Am Fire; I Am Tears Author : Wendy Nikel Narrator : Veronica Giguere Host : Ace Ratcliff Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums PodCastle 565, ARTEMIS RISING: I Am Fire; I Am Tears … Ulykke crouched in the darkness, just beyond the sunray's reach. Before her, along the forest path, an entourage of huntresses passed on horseback, armed with arrows and blades of finest silver and armor too strong for even Ulykke's teeth to pierce.… via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io PodCastle 565, ARTEMIS RISING I Am Fire; I Am Tears - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2u4wyOH

PodCastle 569: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Yew's Embrace Author : Francesca Forrest Narrator : Stephanie Malia Morris Host : Matt Dovey Audio Producers : Peter Behravesh and Peter Wood Discuss on Forums Originally published in Strange Horizons… We could still see the old king's blood in the cracks in the flagstones beneath the new king's feet when he announced to us all that this was a unification, not a conquest, and that we had nothing to fear from the soldiers that fenced us round. via …

Flash Fiction Contest V Opens Today! The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, each author may submit one ori… The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, each author may submit one original fantasy story of 500 words or les…

PodCastle 570: Elegy for a Slaughtered Swine Author : Rafaela Ferraz Narrator : Carlo Matos Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 570: Elegy for a Slaughtered Swine is a PodCastle original. Rated PG-1… Men do not often cook, out behind these hills. It's women's domain, the kitchen, but they've shown me the ways of all that is theirs to rule. I could cook up a soup or a curse without leaving this room. The former is simple. Cabbage and potato and s…

PodCastle 571: The Guitar Hero Author : Maria Haskins Narrator : Setsu Uzume Host : Hamilton Perez Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by Kaleidotrope. Rated PG-13. The first time Bella, Alice, and I exorc… The first time Bella, Alice, and I exorcised a demon it was an accident: a pentagram doodled backstage, some quotes from The Exorcist, and suddenly that vocalist from the band we were opening for wasn't quite himself anymore. Who knew hellfire was s…

PodCastle 550: The Last Exorcist Author : Danny Lore Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published in FIYAH. Rated R for strong language and violence. The Las… Author's Note: This piece was commissioned and then declined by a prominent magazine. The only information that has been altered/omitted are locations, as those have been deemed a national security risk. Re-post and share at will. Naheem is our last…

PodCastle 551: The Blue Widow Author : J. P. Sullivan Narrator : Tanja Milojevic  Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published by Baen Books, grand prize winner of their 2017 Fantasy Adventure Cont… The Blue Widow By J. P. Sullivan It was good tea, all things considered, and I really did admire his efforts at being a good host - but the fact was, I was there to kill him. This was, unfortunately, something of a trend in the profession. He spoke …

PodCastle 547: Every House, a Home Author : Evan Dicken Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published in the Utter Fabrication anthology by Mad Scientist Journal. Rated PG-1… "I guess nobody wants haunted houses, anymore." Derek checked his reflection in one of the Cape Cod's filmy windows, teasing his hair back to mussy perfection. He glanced back at me. "That was a joke, Natalie." He blew out a long puff of air. "Never…

PodCastle 552: The Watchers Author : Shelly Jones Narrator : Kate Baker Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by Luna Station Quarterly. Rated PG. The Watchers by Shelly Jones He did not… He did not know why he had agreed to marry her. For a long time he thought it was because she would hum at everything she did. She hummed while cooking. She hummed while cleaning and sewing. She hummed when she raked leaves and shoveled dirt and cho…

PodCastle 553: Grounded Women Never Fly Author : Stefani Cox Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 553: Grounded Women Never Fly is a PodCastle original. Rated PG-13.… It is the women of the community who can run, but don't. The women are the ones who can place a foot just so, another precisely calculated in front of it and leap across yards of empty space. If the women did move in this way, there would be a rhyth…

PodCastle 581: Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold Author : Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Narrator : Brian Murphy Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Submerged anthology, edited by S.C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier.  Content w… Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold By A. Merc Rustad Tage lights a cigarette and watches the man in the scarlet fedora come nearer. Hat like that's hard to miss. This one's his contact. His heartbeat gets quick. The docks are loud, briny, thick with bodi…

PodCastle 583: The Resurrectionist Author : J. P. Sullivan Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published in the August 2017 issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicin… The Resurrectionist "Yes, I can bring your wife back from the dead," I told the farmer, who had reasonable doubts about my abilities. "Just realize that it might not be what she wants." "She wants to see her children again," he said. He'd told me hi…

PodCastle 587: Strange Waters Author : Samantha Mills Narrator : C. L. Clark Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published in Strange Horizons. Rated: PG, for a parent guiding herself home. Strang… Fisherwoman Mika Sandrigal was lost at sea. She knew where she was in relation to the Candorrean coastline and how to navigate back to her home city, Maelstrom. She knew the time of day. She knew the season. She knew the phase of the moon and the pa…

PodCastle 545: The Aunties Return the Ocean Author : Chris Kuriata Narrator : Setsu Uzume Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by Diabolical Plots. Content warning: Some disturbing imagery… Auntie Roberta landed badly on the roof of her escarpment house, scraping her knees across the flagstone shingles and splitting her pantyhose. Her arms were too full of black water to keep her balance so she nearly slid off the edge. She carried so …

We roll into town on a bright sunny morning, steering the Caddy around the half-dozen streets that make up "downtown." Three of us in the back dozing and the other two up front with our arms hanging out the windows, letting our fingers ride on the f…

Properties of Obligate Pearls By L. S. Johnson You have to know what to look for. Younger, definitely - stones from the elderly are heavy and black, decades of layers dulling the luster. No one wants the weight of a grandmother's worries around thei…

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io In the grayest hour of the evening of April 16th, 1699, when the sun had just vanished behind the great château that embraced the city of Caen but before her lantern-bearers had taken up the hooks of their trade, a gargantuan woman stooped to fit th… PodCastle 431 La Héron - PodCastle via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2cCkuhH