by Allyson Longueira | Apr 30, 2014 | Podcast
If you look around your neighborhood, I’ll bet you see one.
Something new, something different.
A flower you never noticed before or perhaps something more.
If you look closely, you might observe something about a neighbor or friend that’s completely new. Possibly startling, but never boring.
Go a little deeper now with Kristine Kathryn Rusch in her story, “Flower Fairies,” where a woman discovers amazing secrets about life in the midst of death.
It’s from her collection, Five Fantastic Tales.
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“Flower Fairies” is included in the collection,Five Fantastic Tales, available in ebook and trade paperback, and can also be found as a stand alone story in ebooks format at your favorite retailer.
by Allyson Longueira | Apr 24, 2014 | Podcast
Crappy jobs. I’ve had a few.
How about you?
They’re the worst when the suck energy and time from your life and give back less coin than you really need to survive.
But they can also be the best when they help glue your life together when it feels like everything is about ready to fly apart.
It’s a mixed bag, and that’s one thing Megan DeLaney discovers in “Photo World.” The story is written by JC Andrijeski, and it’s from Fiction River Special Edition: Crime.
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You can read “Photo World” by JC Andrijeski in Fiction River Special Edition: Crime, which is available in ebook and trade paperback at your favorite retailer.
by Allyson Longueira | Apr 17, 2014 | Podcast
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith mentioned the Cold Poker Gang in his acclaimed thriller Dead Money.
Now he introduces us for the first time to Retired-Detective Lott and the rest of the retired Las Vegas detectives who play poker, solve cold cases, and call themselves the Cold Poker Gang.
They solve cases every week, but this case becomes very personal for Retired-Detective Lott. More so than any cold case he and the Gang ever tackled before. And as with most cold cases, solutions do not come easy.
And answers tend not to be what anyone hoped.
We’ve got “The Case of the Pleasant Hills Murder” cued, and it’s read for you by the author.
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You can read “The Case of the Pleasant Hills Murder, ” a Cold Poker Gang story in Smith’s Monthly #3 , which is available in ebook and trade paperback at your favorite retailer.
by Allyson Longueira | Apr 3, 2014 | Podcast
Who’s your hero?
Your mom or dad? A grandparent, teacher or cop? How about fictional folk like Wonder Woman or Batman?
Scholar Joseph Campbell says that anyone who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of a group, a city, tribe or a family can be called a hero.
Campbell spent a lot of time mapping the Hero’s Journey, laying out the stages, events and characters who typically accompany the hero on what is often a long and twisty trip.
In “Patriotic Gestures,” author Kristine Kathryn Rusch takes us on a kind of hero’s journey.
Only in this one we travel through the heart and mind of one woman.
Chosen as one of the best mystery stories of 2009, “Patriotic Gestures” explores the fine lines that run through American culture, and sometimes through Americans themselves. The story is from the collection, Five Female Sleuths.
by Allyson Longueira | Mar 27, 2014 | Podcast
Some days the notion of living forever sounds way cool; others–you gotta be kidding.
A forever that includes migraines, the awful neighbor upstairs, your uncle’s bad breath, not to mention countless years in which every tiny regret and sorrow piles one on top of the other until…
Well, you get the picture.
Who’d want that? It’s meh at best, horrific at worst.
So erase all that and bring on the science fiction writer–someone whose imagination is primed to roll out a different view of forever.
I’m talking about Steven Mohan, Jr., the writer responsible for today’s story podcast, “Hot Jupiters.” It’s from Fiction River: Moonscapes. Steve’s future universe is as familiar as a sleepy Sunday morning and as unique as a hot Jupiter.
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You can read “Hot Jupiters” by Steven Mohan, Jr., in Fiction River: Moonscapes, which is available in ebook and trade paperback at your favorite retailer.
by Allyson Longueira | Mar 6, 2014 | Podcast
Happy Thursday!
It’s podcast day, and we’ve got a special one cued.
Especially if you love big, honking, spectacular fantasy novels.
If you do, you might have read Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novels of The Fey.
If you haven’t, you’re in luck because The Sacrifice, which is the first book in the series, is on offer in an amazing story bundle along with novels by a few other authors you might have heard of once upon a time.
Their names aren’t secret, but hang around, give a listen to “Destiny: A Story of The Fey,” then go check out the bundle here.
And after you get your hands on all those books, don’t forget to come up for air once in a while and come back next week, because we’ll have another story podcast for you.
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“Destiny: A Story of the Fey” is available in ebook and trade paperback. You can find out more about the world of the Fey series here.
