Subscribe via any podcatcherEP16: Union Dues: The Saga of Tam Suji by Jeffery DeRego
By admin | August 13, 2008
Read by Zach Friedman
Audio Engineering by Chris Moody
Parental Guidance Suggested
Most of our listeners are familiar with Heffery 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.
The smell of greasy hamburgers and the sound of calliope music sneaks into the small dark dressing room off the main stage of the Missouri State Fair.
Kitty and TK are already in costume, Johnny Toruko is in the back getting dressed, and Miss Jennifer is alternating between looking at her watch and glaring at us for not being quicker.
“Five minutes,” she says.
“Almost ready Miss Jennifer,” we answer in sing-song voice.
I’ve barely got my last white glove on before the Team Shikaragaki Go! theme music starts.
Kitty is out first. She handsprings across the center stage then leaps up and crouches on the light rig.
TK walks out next, waving and smiling. Her yellow tights catch the early Saturday afternoon sunlight and almost glow.
Some kids are waving drawings of us on homemade signs.
Johnny goes out next. He stops and makes a “bang-bang” motion with his hands until bolts of flickering blue/white lightning snake up his arms. He flashes each hand down and blasts the lightning into a grounded steel plate in the stage floor.
The fans, especially the young girls, scream so loud it vibrates the dressing room.
I was supposed to wait until our theme music hits the second bridge before taking the stage but all I can hear is the carousel, all I can smell is the food, and I come out early.
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EP15: Forget Me Not by Mary E. Lowd
By admin | July 31, 2008
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
Music by Robert Farmer
Forget Me Not is Mary E Lowd’s first publication and we are very excited to be presenting it. It has already appeared in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology and in a Greek magazine, Ennea, which translates to “9″.
His confidence drew him to her. The gleam in his eye said, “I can take on the world,” and she believed it. She was fascinated, and her fascination endeared him to her.
Michael introduced them, but neither Joan nor Leeland bestowed a second glance at Leeland all night. Their eyes and conversation were reserved for each other.
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EP14 How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
By admin | July 16, 2008
This story is PG13 which we neglected to mention in the intro. Parental Guidance is strongly recommended.
Read by Bruce McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Yes, the story really is by the Neil Gaiman! Neil Gaiman works magic in all fields of speculative fiction. He has won many awards. He has written Coraline, American Gods and Anansi Boys. Most recently he has released a short fiction collection titled Fragile Things. M is for Magic is a new collection coming out soon.
“Come on,” said Vic. “It’ll be great.”
“No it won’t,” I said, although I’d lost this fight hours ago, and I knew it.
“It’ll be brilliant,” said Vic, for the hundredth time. “Girls! Girls! Girls” He grinned with white teeth.
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EP13 Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams
By admin | July 1, 2008
Read by Dani Cutler of The Truth Seekers Podcast
Music by Robert Farmer
Illustration by Lorraine Schleter
Walter Jon Williams began his writing career in the 80’s and he has been a very prolific writer eversince. His first SF novel was Ambassador of Preogress, followed by Hardwired, Aristoi, Metropolitan, City on Fire, The Rift and his Dread Empire’s Fall series. He won a Nebula for “Daddy’s World” and “The Green Leopard Plague.” His short fiction is colected in Facets and Frankenstein’s and Foreign Devils. His most recent novel is Implied Spaces which the clonepod team can’t wait to read.
This coming of age story is PG because it is a coming of age story where not every child gets to become an adult. Younger children may be frightened, but parents should decide for themselves.
It’s your understanding and wisdom that makes me want to talk to you, Doctor Sam. About how Fritz met the Blue Lady, and what happened with Janis, and why her mother decided to kill her, and what became of all that. I need to get it sorted out, and for that I need a real friend. Which is you.
Janis is always making fun of me because I talk to an imaginary person. She makes even more fun of me because my imaginary friend is an English guy who died hundreds of years ago.
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Promo #2!
By chris | June 24, 2008
We are proud to announce that we have a second promo, which is so much better than our first promo we decided to get rid of the first promo.
If you have a blog or podcast and would like to play this one, please do!
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Missing files….
By chris | June 24, 2008
Sorry about our recent outage of files, someone misunderstood what was going on, and moved files to a different directory. Sorry for taking so long to repairing this, however all the files should be back to where they originally were.
Thanks for listening!
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EP12 Trefalgar and the Ape-Men of Haunted Wood by Nicholas Ozment
By admin | June 14, 2008
Read by Kada McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Nicholas Ozment teaches English at Winona State University. By night he is an sf writer of stories and poetry for publications such as Weird Tales, Mythic Delirium, SUSURRUS: THE LITERATURE OF MADNESS, MYTHIC CIRCLE, AFTERBURN SF, and RAVEN ELECTRICK. Two of his stories have been podcast on PSEUDOPOD. He reviews books and movies at DOWN IN THE CELLAR and MANNING’S MANLY MOVIES. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and a strange black dog.
by Nicholas Ozment
Marigold was bending over to pick a morel mushroom when she heard something crashing through the woods. It grew louder, coming towards her. Her heart jumped and she stood up straight, hoping it was only a spooked deer. She grasped the handle of the knife she carried beneath her cape, fearing it might be a far less pleasant denizen of the forest—a wolf or a boar or a bear. Not that the small knife would do the young girl much good against boar tusk or bear claw. It was more handy for whittling pocket-sized boars and bears out of sticks.
Then it—or rather he—burst from the trees not forty yards from her, running at full tilt. He came leaping over brambles and branches and bushes, his great long legs taking huge strides so that in the span of a heartbeat he was already nearly upon her. He was a gaunt, wiry giant of a man.
He didn’t notice Marigold until he nearly ran her over. Then his gangly body, all waving limbs like a daddy-longlegs spider, came to an abrupt halt. He towered over her, glaring down with gray, owl-like eyes
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EP11 Union Dues:Team Shikaragaki - The Ballad of Kitty Momoiro by Jeffrey DeRego
By admin | May 28, 2008
The story today is not for young children. It is PG13 for language, mature topics and violence
Read by Abby Kim
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Chris Moody
Jeffrey DeRego’s fiction has appeared at Escape Pod and Tales of the Zombie War. He also contributes funny commentaries about writing to The Writing Show (www.writingshow.com) and has appeared on both SciFi Dig, and The Eclectic Word.
So, we’re like in this mall in Wisconsin or Michigan or some other place I can’t find on a map, roped off and on a little stage. And, all I can concentrate on is how good an Orange Frosty from the food court would taste right now. Do I notice that a couple of hundred kids, mostly girls around between five and fifteen are screaming questions and snapping pictures? Sure, but that isn’t anyway near as interesting as how they mix orange juice, coconut milk, and soda water with a chopped banana.
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FF3: The Invisible Man is Innocent by Ralph Gamelli
By admin | May 20, 2008
Read by Bruce McDonald
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
The Invisible Man is Innocent was originally published at McSweeneys.net
He has had other humor pieces published at McSweeneys
Online Tendency, The Big Jewel, MonkeyBicycle, The
Morning News, Weird Tales, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination and
Talebones. You can find Mr. Gamelli at http://webpagewithlinks.blogspot.com/
Regarding today’s front-page story: I’m surely just one of
thousands dismayed to read that Mayor Pendleton’s pants slipped
down around his ankles during last night’s address at City Hall.
However, while I think we can all agree it was unfortunate (and
no doubt humiliating), I must take issue with your reporter,
Alan Hendale, who went out of his way to label the incident
“suspicious.”
We all know what he was implying.
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Ep10 The Cat, The Desert and Lucky .003 by Kassandra Kelly
By admin | May 12, 2008
PG-13 - not for young children!
Read by Leslie Ann Moore
Music by Robert Farmer
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Ms Kelly received my MFA from Pacific University in 2006, and since leaving school, she has taught composition and fiction writing at Pacific. She has a short story appearing this summer in The Rose & Thorn. She was a finalist in a Glimmer Train short story contest in 2006, and in 2007 she won an artist residency at Caldera. In 1998 she was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook in Washington state, and in 1999, her short story “Scorched” was selected by Stephen King for his On Writing contest.
After the cat died, time began to creep up on me.
One day I set out to water and prune the tomato plants, and the next thing I knew I’d spent most of the day going through old clothes, shaking out the wrinkles and remembering when I last wore this dress, that blouse.
In the trunk I also found a notebook. I don’t know how it got there, maybe scooped up in my last frenzy of packing. We are taught never to write anything down, not even directions or lists. I’ve obeyed this rule so well that I had to teach myself to hold a pen.
You see, that was one way the cat helped. I wouldn’t have lasted a month out here without her, in the beginning.
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