by Kris Rusch | Sep 12, 2013 | Podcast
We celebrate the beginning of another school year with a fantastic look at the special problems someone with special abilities might have in a very normal setting.
The other kids call Wilhelmina “Cry-Baby Witch.” They’re right about one thing even if they don’t know it: she’s a witch, but she doesn’t have control of her magic yet. If she did, she’d protect all the animals in Mrs. Anderson’s room, but Willi can’t even protect herself.
Trapped in school because of a blizzard, creepy Craig Maddson has figured out Willi’s secret. He plans to reveal it, and Willi has no idea how to stop him.
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by Kris Rusch | Sep 5, 2013 | Podcast
We’re tickled to offer “A Time to Dream” by Dean Wesley Smith , read by the author, as this week’s audio podcast.
Captain Brian Saber, his ship and other Earth Protection League ships face a suicide mission to save Earth. Can he succeed, even though seemingly moments before he lay slowly dying of old age in a nursing home on Earth?
The first Captain Brian Saber story.
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by Kris Rusch | Aug 29, 2013 | blog, Podcast
This week we’re pleased to present “The Thrill of the Hunt” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, read by the author.
Her family called her Hilda, before the war, before the Great Wulf murdered them all.
Now the war is over, Europe is in ruin, and the remaining Nazis have scattered. Hilda hunts them, but really, she hunts him. Finally she tracks him to Argentina.
She’s supposed to kill him, but she’s not sure if she can. She won’t know until they’re face to face, until it’s time for one of them to die.
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by Kris Rusch | Aug 22, 2013 | Podcast
For this week’s podcast, we’re pleased to present “Geeks Bearing Gifts” by Kristine Grayson, read by Jane Kennedy.
Bethanne Dupree runs a computer dating service and pretends she doesn’t need it too. She manages to separate her personal life from her business life until Ray Greco comes to the office of the dating service to make a video. The handsome Greco distracts her staff, and his video crashes her server. In fact, he crashes a lot of things. Including Bethanne.
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by Kris Rusch | Aug 15, 2013 | Podcast
This week we present a second story from the third volume of Fiction River: Time Streams, which releases in print and ebook on August 20, for our story podcast. We’re happy offer the audio of “The Elevator in the Cornfield” by Scott William Carter for the next week.
Publishers Weekly called Scott William Carter’s very first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, “a touching and impressive debut.” The judges of the Oregon Book Award agreed, granting him that prestigious award in 2011. Since then, he’s published ten novels and over fifty short stories in a wide variety of genres and styles. His latest novel, Ghost Detective, has hit print.
He writes that “The Elevator in the Cornfield” started with the title. He begins a lot of stories that way. “I like to juxtapose images that don’t belong together and start asking myself questions. Why is that elevator in a cornfield? Who finds it? What do they do?”
He answers all of those questions and oh so much more in the touching story that follows.
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by Kris Rusch | Aug 8, 2013 | blog, Podcast
For this week’s story podcast we have a work from the third volume of Fiction River: Time Streams, which releases in print and ebook on August 20. Award-winning writer Robert T. Jeschonek sees the big picture. Ask him to write about something small and he’ll see its grand implications. When asked for a time-travel story, he decided “to play with the nature of time itself, exploring the perception of time versus the reality of it.”
This isn’t the first time Bob has written something vast. His grand-prize winning story for Strange New Worlds took place over a billion years. Another of his stories, “Fear of Rain,” was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. His young adult novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Day 9, his novel told in part from the point of view of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, won a 2013 International Book Award.
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