PodCastle 656: What My Flies Keep for Me Author : Shaoni C. White Narrator : Abra Staffin-Wiebe Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 656: What My Flies Keep for Me is a PodCastle original. Content Wa… What My Flies Keep For Me By Shaoni C. White There's a dead body on the floor. This is a bad thing. I'm having trouble recalling why that's the case, but I'm sure it'll come back to me soon. via Pocket

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…

PodCastle 627: We Are the Flower Author : Claire Humphrey Narrator : Jen R. Albert Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums PodCastle 627: We Are the Flower is a PodCastle original. Rated PG-13. Includes copious F… I didn't clue in until I saw the ghost bike chained to a signpost on Adelaide, near a corner. I was stopped up close, and I looked down and the angles of the frame were familiar. A Cannondale CAAD 5, just like mine. via Pocket

PodCastle 626: DOUBLE FEATURE! A Sharp Breath of Birds; A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death) Authors : Tina Connolly and A.C. Wise Narrators : Tina Connolly and Dani Daly Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums … PodCastle 626 DOUBLE FEATURE! A Sharp Breath of Birds; A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death) - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2WptETR You are two on the day you see your first personal bird. It is the sort of thing you barely remember later, at six, seven, twenty. via Pocket

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 629: Though She Be But Little Author : C.S.E. Cooney Narrator : Julia Rios Host : Setsu Uzume Audio Producer : Peter Behravesh Discuss on Forums Originally published in Uncanny Magazine. Previously published in Jonathan Strahan's The… PodCastle 629 Though She Be But Little - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MmVoCH Though She Be But Little By C.S.E. Cooney Emma Anne had a tin can attached by a string to her belt. via Pocket

Blender whirred with sympathy. "I did," said Toaster, "and everything seems to be working. It was like my settings had been changed. I guess they had. It's not my fault if Owner gives me the wrong settings." via Pocket Escape Pod 641 Flash Fiction Contest Winners - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Mnfmjh

Escape Pod 640 Paradise Regained - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2OUfNiJ My head hurts. I expect it: this is winter. I want it to be spring. Paradise does not ask what I want. via Pocket

Mother Tongues By S. Qiouyi Lu "Thank you very much," you say, concluding the oral portion of the exam. You gather your things and exit back into the brightly lit hallway. Photos line the walls: the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, Machu Picch… Escape Pod 636 Mother Tongues - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MpMhDX

Escape Pod 653 And Then There Were (N-One) (Part 2) - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2qCTZxa Not me, my logic brain understood, even though some tiny part of me screamed something was wrong. I'd made it through the entire afternoon talking with people who were more like me than an identical twin would be, but the body was somehow more real.…

Escape Pod 655 And Then There Were (N-One) (Part 4) - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2S6ToQ0 Back in my room, I stripped my wet clothes off and replaced them with another T-shirt and boxer shorts. The whiskey didn't do the job I'd hoped it would, so I spent the night in imaginary conversation with Mabel. The rain battering the window filled…

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io "Congratulations, Mrs. Costa," chirped the young Life Center nurse. "You're ready to go home! Here's your shield." Maria raised the infant in her arms high enough for the nurse to slip the slim, silver band around her waist. via Pocket

I'm off my bunk and into my jodhpurs, knee-high leather boots and flight jacket the moment the long range air attack klaxons seep into my nightly dream about Caracara. via Pocket Escape Pod 656 Into the Breach (Flashback Friday) - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2P6CTBu

Escape Pod 652 And Then There Were (N-One), (Part 1) - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2JBxRfi I considered declining the invitation. It was too weird, too expensive, too far, too dangerous, too weird. Way too weird. An invitation like that would never come again. I'd regret it if I didn't go. It lay on our kitchen table for three weeks while…

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