By Lucy A. Snyder
Read by Ann Leckie
Veronica was a spaceworthy lass with a definite preference for silence and a sensitivity to detail. She’d never lost her tea in zero gee and had always been the first to note when the coffee maker needed cleaning or when the fluorescent lights would flick-flicker in signal of the bulbs’ impending death.
Rated R. Contains sexual situations and noisy people.
By Daniel Braum.
Read by Stephen Eley.
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“Oh great Emperor,” the gyoji said, continuing the ritual. “These two
honorable warriors can not agree who will step aside, and who will
join the sacred battle to return you to us. We would gladly send all
our sons, but the Council of Infinite Japans says there may be only
twenty-one. So now they must fight to decide.”
“May the best warrior join the fight,” the crowd answered in unison
with the gyoji.
The gyoji stepped back. Asashoryu stared into Takanasuro’s
expressionless brown eyes. The match would begin upon a tacit
agreement between them. He kept Takanasuro’s mid section in his field
of vision while focusing on keeping his own face blank. He knew the
beginner’s lesson as if it were part of him; faces deceive and betray,
but all movement starts at the hips.
Rated PG. Contains death, betrayal, hauntings, and a challenging amount of Japanese.
By Mike Resnick
Read by Elie Hirschman
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First appeared in Baen’s Universe, October 2008.
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Arlo didn’t look much like a man. (Not all robots do, you know.) The problem was that he didn’t act all that much like a robot.
Rated PG. Contains hopes that will never be fulfilled.
By Ian Creasey.
Read by FNH (of The Cthulhu Podcast).
First appeared in Asimov’s, March 2008
Guest Host: Tony Smith (of Starship Sofa)
Nathan’s eyes stung as he remembered how Jenny used to do just that: the same jump down the stairs, the same windmilling of her arms as she landed…. The grief swept over him like a palpable wave, making him stagger backward.
“Dad?” Christopher kicked his backpack down the hall to the door. “You all right?”
“It’s nothing,” said Nathan. He rubbed the implant-port behind his right ear. It’s nothing. It’s not real.
But it felt real.
Rated PG. Contains themes of death and child endangerment.
By Michael Bekemeyer
Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod)
I have a special skill. I am a part of a small group of people on this planet that can do special things with their minds. You have your mind readers, your empaths — and you have people like me who can control things through telekinesis. I have always been able to move things, just by thinking about it. It always came in helpful when playing golf.
Rated R. Contains sex and violence.
By Tim Pratt
Read by: Stephen Eley
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Special closing music: “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton.
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He didn’t call himself The Aerialist at first. The newspapers came up with that later. He called himself Kid Kangaroo of all things, because of the jumping from rooftop to rooftop, even though I made fun of him, called him “Joey,” made jokes about dingoes. Nobody knows his secret identity but me, and I only found out because I snuck into the treehouse one night to smoke a cigarette and found him changing out of his leotard and tights and domino mask. He was only fifteen. I still remember what he said: “Don’t tell anyone — if my identity is discovered, you and mom and dad could be used against me.”
Rated PG. Contains sibling rivalry and comic book deconstruction.
By J. R. Blackwell
Read by Ann Leckie (of PodCastle)
“Becky.” Typed Rachel “I had to ban him. I’m sorry. He was a bot, a spider, a program. He wasn’t human.” Becky’s green words glowed on her screen almost immediately.
“He talked to me! Every day! What do you mean he wasn’t human?”
Rachel exhaled; this was going to be tough. “Didn’t you notice he kept trying to get you to buy games?”
“I like buying games! Who cares? I really liked Gabriel. You two were the only people on this forum I could talk to.”
Rated R. Models internet behavior you wouldn’t want your children to emulate.
By Liz Shannon Miller.
Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekers).
Guest Host: Jeffrey R. DeRego
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Only the best gain acceptance. Harry cannot be bought. Twice a year,
he attends the fashion shows, looking for an unknown to transform, but
most of the time they come to him — the beautiful, the elegant, the
desperate. They plead with him, their eyes containing all the emotion
their faces cannot show. The beauties who want to be brilliant, who
want to move beyond the limitations of their appearance. Who want to
act.
“Boxtresses”, people call his students, and Harry doesn’t bother to
correct the gender assumption, because his class for actors is still
ostensibly secret. No one wants to believe that action heroes need to
avoid aging. It’s their love interests who need to stay fresh.
Rated PG. Contains profanity and shallow motivations.
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