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By admin | March 27, 2009
At this time, clonepod is undergoing some changes. We have lost one editor and two audio engineers – hence the lower quality of the previous episode. What we haven’t lost is a fantastic line up of stories and we are working hard at getting up to speed at editing stories ourselves. We expect to be up and running again at our previous quality in two weeks, but we won’t air until we can do a good job. – Forrest and Abby
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EP: 28 The Visionaries by Robert Reed
By admin | February 27, 2009
Read by Jusitn Lowmaster
You can find out more about Justin on his websites www.thebeandom.com/spaceturtle and www.thespaceturtle.com.
Today’s story is PG13 for language and adult topics
You can find out more about today’s author at his website www.robertreedwriter.com
Everyone is an unmitigated failure.
And then success comes, or it doesn’t. When I was still an unpublished author, I wrote a long story about an average fellow wandering through his relentlessly unremarkable life. His world wasn’t particularly different from mine, ecept for being set in some down-the-road future. The plot was minimal, the sf ideas scarse. Yet something about the narrative….
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Episode 27: The Last Dog
By chris | January 30, 2009
Today we are proud to present a story by Mike Resnick. The story is The Last Dog, be warned you may find this is a very sad story. If your not able to cry where your at, you may wish to hold off on listening to the story.
We do apologize for this story being late, the next one will most likely also be late. Details as to why, are given in this episode.
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EP 26: Dazzle Joins the Screenwriter’s Guild by Scott Bradfield
By admin | January 9, 2009
Read by Ace Antonio Hall
This story is rated r for language.
Episode 26 is part of our Dog Appreciation Month at Clonepod in honor of our new puppy, WallE and our dog, Hazel, who has welcomed WallE into the family.
Scott Bradfield has worked in Hollywood writing scripts for Sony, Universal, Working Title and Roger Corman’s Concorde Films. He has written two books entitled Hot Animal Love and Good Girl Wants it Bad. Recent work has appeared in Bookforum, thefanzine.com and the New York Ghost.
Dazzle found his first script conference a lot less painful than he expected.
“I see a dog with severe personality disorders,” envisioned Syd Fleishman of Sony Tristar, seated in his overstuffed leather armchair with a plastic liter of Evian propped between his knees. “I see a dog with closeness issues, and issues about his dad…..
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FF-7 Tourists by Jonathan Lowe
By admin | January 1, 2009
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
audio engineering by Bruce McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Happy New Year from everyone at clonepod. Today we are releasing the promised Flash Fiction piece that we had intended to release for Christmas before we knew we could run the wonderful steampunk story, Cold Duty for Christmas.
The author of today’s story, Jonathan Lowe, has a website that includes interviews and reviews of audio books. We recommend checking his work out at Justsaynoway.com.
I was in the air en route to Jamaica once when the guy next to me said: “We aliens like to fly first class.”
I looked at him, closely. He winked. Twice. On the second wink I spewed the gin and tonic I’d been sipping all over him. Luckily, the old folks sitting across from us were asleep, precluding embarrassment. Although I did have a good excuse for it. After all, the guy doing the winking had two eyelids, the second resembling an icky green jelly-like membrane. Other than this rather minor oversight he could have passed for any insurance salesman.
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EP- 25 Cold Duty by Dan Sawyer
By admin | December 24, 2008
Today we are very pleased to announced Steampod’s first every Christmas Story by airing it on clonepod as well. Tonight’s story is Cold Duty. It was written by J. Daniel Sawyer of Literary Abominations. The story is read by Stephen Killbride of the Tea and Chat Podcast. If you enjoyed the story, head on over to steampod for more.
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How to Deal With Your Daughter and Her Crabs by Brian Salyards
By admin | December 3, 2008
audio engineering by Bruce McDonald
read by Leslie Ann Moore
music by Robert Farmer
Parental Guidance recommended. Suggestive Language
How to Deal With Your Daughter and Her Crabs was previously published in 2005 in Alien Skin magazine. Brian Salyard’s work also appears in Alien Skin and in the Redjack Books anthology Anathema.
Charles sat at a dinner table much too large for just himself and his wife, chewing his lip with rapidly increasing annoyance. Jaycee was now thirty-five minutes late.
It was bad enough she hadn’t let him pick her up from the airport; now he watched the sedentary Tofurky® harden and become fouler by the second. A fly crouched on it, rubbing its legs with delight, and perhaps confusing it for its usual meal of choice. Charles was not inclined to shoo it. As a retired entomology professor, he was often more comfortable around the six-legged than the two
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EP-23 Invisible by Leslie Ann Moore
By admin | November 21, 2008
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
Audio engineering by Bruce McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Leslie Ann Moore works in the healing profession and is the author of Griffin’s Daughter. She is part of the clonepod team as an editor and a frequent narrator for clonepod’s stories. You can listen to the podcast of her exciting book at http://leslieann.podomatic.com.
Invisible explores a world so obsessed by youth that people literally become invisble when they age…
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EP-22 Union Dues: The Sojourn of Taizen Kiro by Jeffrey R DeRego
By admin | November 5, 2008
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Ending Song ”Re: Your Brains” by Johnathan Coulton
Parental Guidance Strongly Suggested
No tricks today, only a treat – a new Union Dues story! Also included is a Halloween Song which we love and hope you will too.
Most of our listeners are familiar with Jeffrey DeRego’s Union Dues series both on escapepod and now his new series of the Team Shikaragaki on our podcast. If you haven’t yet been infected with the Union Dues bug, you will have the joy of getting to go back into our archives and escapepod’s Union Dues archives to catch up with the stories
I’m on my second Martini when I feel Miss Jennifer enter the Jumpin’ Catfish Lounge: Home of the Buck-Fifty Draft. The bar is attached to a seedy little candlepin bowling alley wedged between an abandoned church, Baptist I think, and a dirt parking lot stuffed with pickup trucks. The walls are papered with posters for low-rent country cover bands, amateur wrestling, and The World Famous Solomon Brothers Traveling Circus. A wagon wheel chandelier throws enough light that I can’t even blend into the shadows so she’s sure to see me.
I’ve got an ear-worm and the gin is dulling it some but not chasing it away. This isn’t a regular ear-worm, you know, like the first two bars of a TV theme song that perpetually cycle through your head like some supernatural torture. No, this is a stray thought.
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FF-6 Snack Food by Jeff Carlson
By admin | October 29, 2008
Read by Bruce McDonald
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
No one ever caught me eating hair before — and this dude wasn’t shy. He shouted, “What are you doing!”
I’d just begun styling a natural blonde, a wonderfully plump little thing whose body was all curves. She looked around and I nearly hacked open her jugular.
“Careful.” I palmed my scissors and used both hands to size out her bangs, pretending I didn’t realize the dude meant me, hoping he’d go away. But he was a Watch. I’d already spotted the pin-point cameras tucked behind his ears, as if his puffy wolfman curls, shaped to conceal, weren’t indication enough.
The good news was that he probably wasn’t live on-line.
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