The Original Science Fiction Podcast
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Shortstories Podcasts
A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers each make a story with a limited wordcount in a limited time. Each writer has just an audio prompt and five minutes to make a first draft. Then a fellow writer will give them the edits and suggestions they need to reach those final one hundred words. Created by Tom McNally for Red Button Audio
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With every new issue, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine shares one piece of short fiction in podcast form. Enjoy these audio treats from our pages!
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The podcast that shares stories — original works, personal tales, favorites from TV shows, books, movies and more.
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A collection of short stories based on my life experiences
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Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, the Ustari Cycle, Chum, and Writing Without Rules. He also generates 45% of all the freelance writing in the universe. In each episode, Jeff will pour a drink and discuss one of his works of short fiction, from inspiration to publication, and then read the damn thing with sound effects and asides. He invites you to pour a drink and settle in with him for a self-centered and self-deprecating tour of his literary universe. Also, take off you ...
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Inside Fictions is a short story podcast written by Steve Spalding. Travel through worlds littered with dragons, robots and mad gods -- twice a month.
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Thoughtful, in-depth conversations with authors of all genres and other notable people from Chicagoland and around the world. A monthly program from the Deerfield Public Library in Deerfield, IL, hosted by Dylan Zavagno. Our archives include episodes from the Library's John Cotton Dana Award-winning series, The Fight to Integrate Deerfield: 60 Year Reflection; our Pride Month series, Queer Poem-a-Day; and our local history audio tours.
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Short work on the lives in found photos of people holding anything
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StoryADay presents: I, WRITER - A Writing Podcast about Building a Successful Writing Practice
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Welcome to StoryADay Presents: I, WRITER – A Writing Podcast about building a fulfilling writing life. Hosted by author and StoryADay founder Julie Duffy, this show helps writers of all kinds—novelists, short-story authors, poets, or anyone building a creative habit—turn writing into a sustainable, joyful practice. Each episode blends practical writing tips with mindset reframes drawn from the I, WRITER Framework (Imagine, Write, Refine, Improve, Triumph, Engage, Repeat), to help you avoid o ...
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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland
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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly short story podcast featuring masterful performances of dark tales, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland. If you enjoy playful, chilling, compelling narrations of horror stories, this is the podcast for you. https://www.nocturnaltransmissions.com.au You can support us (and access lots of exclusive content) by becoming a patron at Patreon.com: https://www.patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions scary stories, dark tales, haunting poetry, classi ...
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A collaborative project of writers, voice-actors, and musicians coming together to tell YOUR stories.
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Maine Stories and Moon Musing. It's "All Things Considered" for the moon and modern Maine short fiction. Episodes are produced on each New and Full Moon.
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High-Flying Poultry is the short fiction blog of fantasy author Sharon J. Gochenour. Tune in weekly for a snippet of something weird and/or wonderful.
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The Library of Introspective Mundanity contains audio diary archives collected from sources across the spaces and times. Due to recent events, the records require organization so please pardon the recovery efforts.
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Toussaint Morrison reads short stories written by himself, covering the course of his life, chronicling his adventures as a musician, paraprofessional, and artist.
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Words Out West is a literary podcast spotlighting both established and emerging writers from Montana and the western United States, along with their poems, stories, songs, radio plays and other forms of the spoken word.
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Page is a storytelling podcast designed to connect listeners to new and unique voices in the fiction world. Each month, Page takes original short fiction from emerging authors and produces it as audio dramas, complete with narration, voice acting, music, and sound effects. Enjoy author interviews, discussions, and publishing advice each month as well.
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Journey together through innumerable worlds of fiction with Prose, a biweekly podcast series that offers up short stories of all genres and subject matter. If you like fiction of all sorts with the occasional bit of poetry or verse thrown in for good measure, join us on our adventures through the labyrinths of the human psyche and the infinite spaces of the imagination.
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Locked deep beneath The Museum is...The Museum's Shadow! Inside this secret, trapdoored cellar is an exhibition filled with artifacts, fossils and thick cobwebs. Some artifacts are brought into the light on Twitter: @museumsshadow
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The Last Ovation Podcast presents short stories on various celebrities and discusses their lives, and tragic deaths. Ranging from Hollywood Classics to current Mega-Stars, The Last Ovation honors those who have impacted our lives through entertainment, song and dance.
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Every week a new story. Every episode a new monster.
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The Apocalypse Theater Podcast is an audio drama featuring fiction and dark fiction stories written by Benjamin Allen. Each episode features either a stand-alone short story, or a serialized episode of a larger, ongoing story. Each story, however, has a separate theme, beginning, middle, and unique ending, so it is not necessary to have heard previous episodes.
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A monthly podcast of dark genre short fiction from the Hugo Award-nominated Apex Magazine.
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Join Wa and Foot on their quest to read through all 124 Philip K. Dick short stories. Tangents, foul language, and overly personal anecdotes are expected.
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Welcome to Invaders From Planet 3, the podcast where we talk about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Each episode we'll talk with authors and others connected to speculative fiction about the books, short stories, movies, TV shows, radio plays, or comics that made them fall in love with the genre. We'll also discuss their approach to their craft, what's good in sf today, and a galaxy of other topics. Join us for other discussions on bloginhood.com
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Your Words. Your Podcast. A show for the writers, poets, note takers big and small. A show for the listeners looking to unwind, relate, feel connected. Dead Letter Radio is a podcast focused on sharing the human experience, minor or major, fiction or non-fiction, through original art and writing. Submit your poems, short stories, letters that you have never sent. I want to hear, read, and share them. Sit back and listen to the what the world is whispering.
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**A monthly podcast of classic short stories narrated by author, C.J. Carter-Stephenson, with music by Kevin MacLeod and immersive sound effects.** Journey back to a time of horse-drawn carriages and fantastical inventions... the fiction of yesterday brought vividly to life by the technology of today.
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Short horror stories written by The Fradd Siblings (Matt & Emma Fradd). Get the Sibling Horror book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XS5V9S4?pf_rd_r=GG5G9TAEMZH53KKN9E0F&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&pd_rd_r=f1ab8830-1d2b-4eed-a1fe-0787139a62ac&pd_rd_w=mGgzi&pd_rd_wg=Y3rrz&ref_=pd_gw_unk A big thanks to Soren Narnia of Knifepoint Horror who inspired us to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).
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Short stories, sometimes dark, sometimes light, sometimes spooky, comical, curious or surprising. Sort of Short Stories is a series of stories written and read by author Daniel Mark Brown.
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The Streetwise Cycle is a series of nine interconnected stories about people living unexpectedly interconnected lives on the streets of Los Angeles. It's a view of the city, as seen by the people who sleep on its streets. There are nine stories in all, each of them exactly 999 words long. The podcast is available in three episodes, each containing three stories. To read the stories or see a map of where they take place, visit StreetwiseCycle.com. Author Cheryl Klein calls The Streetwise Cycl ...
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Storyteller Caitlin Hicks, (playwright, performer, author, actor) describes the stories in these podcasts that explore the grief of life as well as the meaning, the humour, the redemption. The series features a variety of first-person character stories in a number of episodes from her international theatrical touring shows: Mother Love, Next of Kin, The Trouble of Christmas, The Life We Lived. Hicks will also share chapters from her novel," A Theory of Expanded Love". But here, she shares a ...
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Welcome to my podcast, where amazing things happen.
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Escape Pod 1026: What Any Dead Thing Wants (Part 1 of 3)
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Written by: Aimee Ogden, Narrated by: Isaac Harwood. Host: Tina Connolly, Producer: Summer Brooks. Rated PG. BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org
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Escape Pod 1025: Samantha's Diary (Flashback Friday)
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Rated PG, Host: Mur Lafferty, Audio Production: Adam Pracht/Mat Weller, BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org.
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NOCTRANS Ep 222 [TRANSMISSMAS 2025] - 'HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY'
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MERRY TRANSMISSMAS gentle listener. This is our final episode of 2025 and we're kicking it 'old school' with E. F. Benson's 'HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY' We hope you enjoy it. See you next year. --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist…
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s04eX2 - Christmas Special 2025 - Jingle Bus
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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this second special holiday episode, the regular writers send in their holiday-themed stories before crumbling into jolly dust. The stories are: 'Auld Lang Syne,' by Amelia Armande, 'Advent-ture,' by Joshua Crisp, 'Th…
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s04eX1 - Christmas Special 2025 - I am the Milky Bar Kid
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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this special holiday episode, the 100 Word Cycle has been used to write a longer-form piece, told from the point of view of an advert designed to sell milk products to British children in the 1960s. 'I am the Milky Ba…
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In the light of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization's statement on AI and eligibility for the Nebula Awards, I recorded this bonus episode of the podcast to give you my perspective on where we are and where we're headed, regarding AI and the creative arts and, well, civilization as a whole. For more like this, subscribe …
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How One "No Thanks" Got Me Writing Again (And Back to My Novel)
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A story got accepted… and another came back not accepted — and I'm weirdly thrilled. Here's why embracing rejection can strengthen your consistent writing habits, PLUS: a holiday writing prompt to keep you writing in December. Links: StoryADay Podcast episode 109: https://storyaday.org/episode109 The 3-Day Challenge: https://storyaday.org/3dc…
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Escape Pod 1024: Some Things I Should Probably Have Mentioned Earlier (LIVE) (Flashback)
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Written by: Laura Pearlman, Narrated by: Laura Pearlman. Host: Alasdair Stuart, Producer: Summer Brooks. Rated PG. BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org
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Hi writers! This week I'm sharing a surprising example of how writing (and writers) can help people in the real world, inspired by a project announced by Brandon Sanderson. It leads to one clear lesson about what it actually takes to build a sustainable writing life — especially if you want to write consistently, keep your momentum, and grow beyond…
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 89: Abhors a Vacuum
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 89: Author Jeff Somers drinks Maker's Mark 101 and reads his short story "Abhors a Vacuum," published by Dark Recesses Press in 2021. https://darkrecessespress.com/2021/12/01/abhors-a-vacuum/ jeffreysomers.comBy Jeff Somers
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Escape Pod 1023: Mackson's Mardi Gras Moon Race
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Written by: David DeGraff, Narrated by: Brian Lieberman. Host: Tina Connolly, Producer: Summer Brooks. Rated PG. BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org
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NOCTRAS Ep 221 - [TRANSMISSMAS 2025 - part 1] - 'An Early Christmas Gift'
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'tis the season gentle listener. We celebrate Transmissmas this year with, not one, but TWO Trasmissmassy tales. Our first is the most appropriately titled 'An Early Christmas Gift' by Andreas Flögel. We hope you enjoy it. --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new,…
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69: Annah Feinberg, author of the graphic novel Goodbye, Dolly!
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This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, we are very happy to welcome writer and artist Annah Feinberg to talk about her hilarious and moving debut full-length graphic novel, Goodbye, Dolly! Narrated from beyond the grave by Dolly, the famous cloned sheep born in 1996, Goodbye, Dolly! tells the story of her six disaffected children (or a…
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The Work Is the Point: Refining Your Writing Life for the Long Haul
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A short meditation on why sustainable writing comes from small, repeatable choices. We touch on Coetzee, Tom Stoppard, and the quiet ways stories ripple outward—then land on the core: build the habit, revise bravely, and let the work be enough.By Julie Duffy
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Escape Pod 1022: Butter Side Down (Part 2 of 2)
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Rated PG-13, Host: Valerie Valdes, Audio Production: Adam Pracht, BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org.By Kal M (Author); Valerie Valdes, Eric Valdes, Dominick Rabrun, Alasdair Stuart (Narrators)
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NOCTRANS Ep 220 [TEASER] - 'The Music of Erich Zann' - Patreon Exclusive Episode
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The following episode is a teaser for our PATREON SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE presentation of: 'The Music of Erich Zann' by H. P. Lovecraft To hear this episode in full subscribe at: patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 88: The Winter Siege
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 88: Author Jeff Somers drinks Knob Creek Cask Strength 101 and reads his Avery Cates short story "The Winter Siege." jeffreysomers.comBy Jeff Somers
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Escape Pod 1021: Butter Side Down (Part 1 of 2)
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Rated PG-13, Host: Valerie Valdes, Audio Production: Adam Pracht, BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org.
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Episode 55: The Night Heron Rescue by Alice Towey
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It’s the start of summer vacation for Mella, a student at New Oakland High, but instead of attending parties and hanging out with friends, she’s cleaning heron cages at a wildlife rescue as court-ordered community service. As the days roll on, Mella falls into a pleasant groove, but as a bad influence rears its head, will she be tempted into the sa…
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Escape Pod 1020: When They Come Back (Flashback Friday)
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A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers create an original story with a limited wordcount in a limited amount of time. In this episode we roll a shiny treasure around our back teeth and bring salmon back in style. The stories are: 'Thief Catcher,' by Amelia Armande, 'Read the Room,' by Joshua Crisp, 'Crow Lady,' by Colette McCormick, 'Do…
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ATLA in Concert: The 20th Anniversary Tour
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Ali celebrates the 250th episode of the podcast by sharing all about her experience attending a live performance of Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert: The 20th Anniversary Tour!
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A man's search for his doppelgänger leads him on an unwelcome journey of self discovery. This is a long one but we think you'll find it just ...'flies' by. [Warning: sexual references] NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present: Nathan Batchelor's 'EDGAR ONE' --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of s…
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Escape Pod 1019: Baron Quits The Payloaders
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Happy Halloween gentle listener. We begin our celebration of the Spooky Season with a mist enshrouded tale of dread on the high seas from Mister 'mist enshrouded dread on the high seas' himself - WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present: William Hope Hodgson's 'THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT' --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnig…
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Silencing the Mean Voice: How Writers Can Quiet Self-Doubt and Keep Creating
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We all have that voice that whispers, "Who are you to think you can write?" In this gentle, thoughtful episode, Julie Duffy shares why those inner critics feel so convincing—and how to move past them. From celebrating small wins to journaling the negative voices into submission, she offers calm, practical ways to rebuild confidence and keep writing…
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Written by: Marie Vibbert, Narrated by: Isabel J. Kim. Host: Mur Lafferty, Producer: Summer Brooks. Rated PG. BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org
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NOCTRANS Ep 218 [HALLOWEEN BONUS EPISODE] - The Graveyard Rats
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Happy Halloween gentle listener. We continue our Spooky Season’s celebrations with the unleashing of a previously unavailable tale from our Patreon back catalogue. Graveyards, ghouls and rats - it doesn’t get much more Halloweeny than that. Nocturnal Transmissions (in conjunction with our beloved Patreon subscribers) is proud to present: Henry Kutt…
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Escape Pod 1017: The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy
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Rated PG-17, Host: Mur Lafferty, Audio Production: Adam Pracht, BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org.
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68: Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., author of The El
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Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., in conversation on his new novel The El (Vintage Books, 2025). A love letter to our city of Chicago, The El follows a group of teen gang members in August 1979 as they travel across the city to a summit where gangs plan to join forces. But the reality is less like the movie The Warriors and more like the creation of a cor…
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Escape Pod 1016: Valedictorian (Flashback Friday)
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Escape Pod 1015: Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias
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NOCTRANS Ep 216 - 'Mother Sauvage' [TEASER] Patreon Exclusive Episode
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The following episode is a teaser for our PATREON SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE presentation of: 'MOTHER SAUVAGE' by Guy de Maupassant To hear this episode in full subscribe at: patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 87: Free from Want
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The No Pants Cocktail Hour Episode 87: Author Jeff Somers drinks some Glenmorangie: A Tale of Ice Cream and reads his short story "Free from Want," which appeared in Fission #2 in 2022. jeffreysomers.comBy Jeff Somers
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Escape Pod 1014: Here Instead of There (Part 2 of 2)
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Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)
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A young couple's relationship troubles get flushed away courtesy of some benevolent plumbing. NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present: 'THE GARGLING SHOWER' by Mark Humphries --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland. https:/…
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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland. https://www.nocturnaltransmissions.com.au You can support us (and access lots of exclusive content) by becoming a patron at Patreon.com: https://www.patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions --- We're…
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Rated PG, Host: Tina Connolly, Audio Production: Summer Brooks, BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visit us at https://escapepod.org
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Why Writer's Block Is Real — and How Community Helps You Beat It
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Writing is hard — but it's even harder alone. In this episode, Julie shares why connecting with other writers is the key to overcoming blocks, staying consistent, and building a joyful writing life. Discover how community keeps you motivated, accountable, and growing as a writer. Join the Superstars group: storyaday.org/superstars…
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A conference in small European town proves nightmarishly ...fruitless. [WARNING: somewhat sexual references] NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to present: Michael McKeown Bondhus's 'FRUIT' --- NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland. …
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