Archives for October 2007
EP129: Immortal Sin
Published on 25 Oct 2007 at 10:00 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Jennifer Pelland
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, November 2005.
Alex stumbled from the confessional, through the church, all the way to the curb. He had to get out of there. He couldn’t sit in the house of God anymore. God didn’t want him there. That was abundantly clear. Forty-one years of perfect mass attendance. Six years as an altar boy. A childhood spent praying for his grandmother’s soul to hasten her time in Purgatory. A spotless record of weekly confessions for the past twelve years. He’d even stopped having sex with Alison two years ago after she’d gotten a tubal ligation so he wouldn’t be committing fornication. He’d followed the rules when he could, and asked for forgiveness when he couldn’t. But none of it mattered. He would die unshriven.
Unless he didn’t die.
Rated R. It’s our Halloween episode. Expect to be disturbed.
Referenced Sites:
Broad Universe
The DrabbleCast
EP128: Union Dues - Send in the Clowns
Published on 18 Oct 2007 at 11:30 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
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-->By Jeffrey R. DeRego.
Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekrs and The Audio Addicts).
Tina tugs on Kindred’s bullet-tattered red cape. “What kinda tricks do you do?”
Kindred shakes her head as if bewildered by the question. “Tricks?” She glances back at Megaton, who now juggles three Jersey barriers about a hundred meters out in the devastation.
“Let it go Kindred. We’ve been through a lot.”
“Well that’s good. So now you’re free to put on a carnival. Get everyone together and onto the jet now. And I mean now!” Her voice is so loud it draws everyone’s attention away from the show.
Megaton drops the Jersey barriers and the ground shakes.
Kindred lowers herself to one knee beside the little girl. “My trick is special,” she says, “I can make the whole circus disappear. Abracadabra‚Äî”
Rated PG. Contains superhero violence and organizational politics.
EP127: Results
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 9:00 pm.
28 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Read by Heather Welliver (of A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life).
First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2000.
Special closing music: “Faithful” by The Shillas.
She should have called her folks last night. They paged her three separate times after the test. But she wanted to wait until she had results, until she had something new to say instead of going over the same old arguments. She’s twenty-five, old enough to make her own choices. Old enough to make her own mistakes.
Her parents thought the testing was mistake number one. It certainly was expensive enough, but the doctor said he advised it for any couple about to get married. If they’re genetically incompatible, he’d said, they have the choice of terminating the relationship, planning for an expensive future, or tying tubes ‚Äî practicing irreversible infertility, as one of her friends called it.
Options. That’s what her parents don’t get. It’s all about options.
And results.
Rated PG. Contains serious themes involving family planning and childbearing.
EP126: The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma
Published on 4 Oct 2007 at 11:59 pm.
18 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated X.
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-->By Nick Dichario and Mike Resnick.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Science Fiction Age, November 1994.
So there you have him, Frederick Bannister, tripping across the highways and byways of of life, stubbing a toe here, bruising an elbow there, spilling this, dropping that, and managing to make it to the halfway point without too many major accomplishments or disasters.
And what of Wilma?
She possessed massive storage capacity, and no fourth-level equation, no matter how complex, was beyond her, but whether she was bright or merely well programmed is a moot point. Or at least it was in the beginning.
Rated X. Contains explicit sex of several kinds. Not recommended for younger audiences.
Referenced Books:
A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario
Magic Feathers: The Mike and Nick Show, by Nick DiChario and Mike Resnick
