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PodCastle 625: Salt and Iron Salt and Iron By Gem Isherwood There's a gash across her cheekbone, glass in her arm and her lower lip is twice the size it should be, but Dagna Müller is hardly a stranger to pain. She slumps on the steps outside th… There's a gash across her cheekbone, glass in her arm and her lower lip is twice the size it should be, but Dagna Müller is hardly a stranger to pain. She slumps on the steps outside the tavern, feeling her nose to check if it's broken again. via Po… PodCastle 625 Salt and Iron - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2SE4QFu

PodCastle 628: Vincent's Penny Author : Chris Barnham Narrator : Matt Dovey Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Dimension6, Issue 16 (April 2019). Rated PG. Vincent's Penny By Chris Barnham  May 1941 I'm … I'm a child this time. Five or six years old. Fully clothed under a bed, on a wooden floor. I touch a hand to my throat, but there is nothing there. I examine my hands and arms, astonished by the smoothness of the skin. At last, I crawl out from ben…

For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019 In 2019, PodCastle produced 15 original stories and 33 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. … In 2019, PodCastle produced 14 original stories and 34 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. PodCastle itself is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo…

PodCastle 611: Yo, Rapunzel! Author : Kyle Kirrin Narrators : Alasdair Stuart, C. L. Clark, Setsu Uzume, Matt Dovey, Jen R. Albert, Peter Behravesh and Mur Lafferty Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastl… Yo, Rapunzel! And lo, the Princess said: "Motherfucker, I am content." "But Princess!" said the Knight, from the base of the Princess' tower. His armor-clad ass was parked atop a huge black stallion, which the Princess found not only pompous, but en… PodCastle 611 Yo, Rapunzel! - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2U6ZNyz

PodCastle 615: Field Reports from the Department of Monster Resettlement Author : L. Chan Narrator : Curtis C. Chen Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by Future Fire in the Making Monster… Stop me if you've heard this one before: two ghosts, a pontianak and a manananggal are sitting around the third floor of a community centre after dark. The trick isn't getting them to come to the support group, the trick is getting them to agree to …

PodCastle 617: The Dead-Wagon Author : Greye La Spina Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums CW: illness and plague; references to violence and sexual assault Rated R. The Dead-Wagon G… The Dead-Wagon Greye La Spina "Someone's been chalking up the front door." The speaker stepped off the terrace into the library through the open French window. From his padded armchair Lord Melverson rose with an involuntary exclamation of startled … PodCastle 617 The Dead-Wagon - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/3cIkbxb

PodCastle 619: The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle Author : Sofia Samatar Narrator : C. L. Clark Host : Peter Behravesh Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published in The Starlit Wood. Rated… This story is at least a thousand years old. Its complete title is "The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle: It Contains Strange and Marvelous Things." A single copy, probably produced in Egypt or Syria, survives in Istanbul; the…

March 2020 Metacast Transcript (Alasdair) Hi everyone, Alasdair here. We're not going to ask how you are right now, because we have a pretty good idea. You're fine. You're FINE. You're the same version of fine as everyone right now, the one Aeros… We're not going to ask how you are right now, because we have a pretty good idea. You're fine. You're FINE. You're the same version of fine as everyone right now, the one Aerosmith sang about. The one where you're alternately anxious, terrified, fur…

PodCastle 613: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - Hoywverch Author : Heather Rose Jones Narrator : Sarah Goleman Host : C. L. Clark Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums This story was a PodCastle original that aired back in 2015. Rated PG.… Elin verch Gwir Goch oed yn arglwydes ar Cantref Madruniawn wrth na bo i'w thad na meibion na brodyr. A threigylgweith dyvot yn y medwl vynet y hela. Ac wrth dilyt y cwn, hi a glywei llef gwylan. Ac edrych i fyny arni yn troi, a synnu wrthi. A'y the…

PodCastle 620: When Hope Is Lost, Touch Remains Author : Nin Harris Narrator : Chang Yiun Yee Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 620: When Hope Is Lost, Touch Remains is a PodCastle original. Conte… When Hope Is Lost, Touch Remains By Nin Harris Chowrasta Market was where Maria had learned to love books - upstairs in the claustrophobic crush of second-hand book stalls, where the musty smell of old paperbacks was drowned in a panoply of aromas f…

PodCastle 621: A Salt and Sterling Tongue A Salt and Sterling Tongue By Emma Osborne I found my dying boy curled up in a pile of straw wet with his blood. Seamus rolled over as I entered the barn, and I saw then that he'd chewed his fingers down … I found my dying boy curled up in a pile of straw wet with his blood. Seamus rolled over as I entered the barn, and I saw then that he'd chewed his fingers down to the first knuckle. "I can taste my King in my wet," he said, rocking forward, naming …

PodCastle 622: Spoken For Author : Evan Kennedy Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Jen R. Albert Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 622: Spoken For is a PodCastle original. Rated PG-13. Spoken For by Evan Ken… Twenty-five years after the magic came back, Auden's wife got turned to stone. It was the dog's fault. A cockatrice had been wandering Harlan County for the past few weeks, ever since some damn fool two towns over let a cock's egg hatch instead of c…

PodCastle 614: White Noon Author : Aidan Doyle Narrator : Julie Hoverson Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 614: White Noon is a PodCastle original. Rated PG-13. White Noon By Aidan Doyle The do… The dogs' barking let me know I had visitors. I reluctantly left my chair by the fire, pulled on my boots, and took my thundergun from its place on the wall. I rarely had any visitors apart from Magnus, which was how the dogs and I liked it. via Poc…

PodCastle 546: For the Removal of Unwanted Guests Author : A.C. Wise Narrator : Dave Thompson Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Pa… For the Removal of Unwanted Guests By A.C. Wise The witch arrived at precisely 11:59 p.m., just as September ticked over to October, on the day after Michael Remmington moved into the house on Washington Street. She knocked at exactly midnight. via …

Ellie watches her husband from the front porch. He makes a lean shadow against the twilight, his arms outstretched, his heels lifting from the ground and dropping again. The wind rustles the branches of the trees overhead, their limbs picked clean o… PodCastle 548: Daniel Author : Ashley Blooms Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Matt Dovey Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Previously published by On Spec (under the title "Second Born"). Content warning: Death of a c…