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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 3d
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 3d
#PC912: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Tanuki-Kettle by Eugie Foster, read by Tina Connolly. Previously ran as #PC28 and first published by Cricket Magazine. Rated G.

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#PC912: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Tanuki-Kettle by Eugie Foster, read by Tina Connolly. Previously ran as #PC28 and first published by Cricket Magazine. Rated G. When Hisa was a baby, her mother called in a soothsayer to cast her daughter’s horoscope. The old woman pulled out her astrology charts and consulted them while incense turned the air blue with perfumed smoke. That day, the fortuneteller had a headache and was in a black mood. Though Hisa’s mother brought her a cup of hot, green tea and fanned her sweating brow, the old woman continued to scowl. “This child will be too bold for her own good,” the fortuneteller grumbled. “Is there nothing I can do?” asked Hisa’s distraught mother. “I could hire tutors to teach her the folly of brashness.” “That is not sufficient.” The soothsayer’s eyes lit upon the brimming teapot. “She must grow up to be a lowly tea girl.”
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Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social · 11d
"Mycelium" is out at Podcastle.

The narration is wonderful and gives such a voice to the story. I'm so grateful to narrator Tatiana Grey and the whole @podcastle.org team for the amazing work they did on this story.

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PodCastle 911: Mycelium - PodCastle
Mycelium by Beth Goder   I only travel to the golden head when the dragonflies are in season. It’s Piack and me this year, rafting up the river past the lilies and arched trees. While I steer us throu...
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 9d
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 9d
#PC911: Mycelium by Beth Goder, read by Tatiana Grey. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Rated PG.

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#PC911: Mycelium by Beth Goder, read by Tatiana Grey. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Rated PG. I only travel to the golden head when the dragonflies are in season. It’s Piack and me this year, rafting up the river past the lilies and arched trees. While I steer us through the river’s gentle snarls, he sings about lost keys to pass the time — he’s always had a thing about lost keys and the doors they’ll never open, the places we’ll never find. “Are you going to eat what the head gives you?” asks Piack. He’s one year older than I am — nineteen. With the sun behind him, his form swims in light. The dragonflies buzz around us, brush their wings against our faces.
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Escape Artists Foundation @escapeartists.net · 11d
Dear Patreon subscribers: we’re aware of the multiple Patreon notifications/emails. We’re working on it. We recommend you turn off notifications for the moment and, if you can, set up a filter for emails. Please bear with us 😩
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 11d
PodCastle enthusiasts! We're getting reports of hundreds of notification emails being sent by Patreon and have received them ourselves.

We're aware of it and are working on it.
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Escape Artists Foundation @escapeartists.net · 11d
Dear Patreon subscribers: we’re aware of the multiple Patreon notifications/emails. We’re working on it. We recommend you turn off notifications for the moment and, if you can, set up a filter for emails. Please bear with us 😩
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 19d
PodCastle is part of the Escape Artists Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and everything we do is funded by donations from our audience. If you want to support us and our sisters in producing fiction like this, please consider donating: www.patreon.com/EAPodcasts
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 19d
#PC910: Tusker Blue by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, read by Shweta Adhyam. Previously Published in Strange Horizons. Rated PG-13 - Content warnings for animal cruelty, blood, and suicide.

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PC910: Tusker Blue by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, read by Shweta Adhyam. Previously Published in Strange Horizons. Rated PG-13 - Content warnings for animal cruelty, blood, and suicide. You still remember the first time Hailé visited the pharmacy, because that was the day the rogue battle elephant overturned the village water tank and flooded five stores on Sacred Heart Road. The pharmacy was one of them, and you were bailing it out with a plastic jug, swearing a blue streak, when the bells jangled over the door. Without turning, you shouted, “As you can see, the pharmacy is closed today!” “Please help me,” begged a voice hoarse with smoke, and you plunged your arm into the yellow water and cursed Raj, as you’d done frequently since the wedding, for leaving you to handle customers along with everything else. “If you just walk to Trincomalee Street, the surgeon’s office will be opening soon — ”
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 23d
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 23d
#PC909: Resurrection Rum by Stephanie Malia Morris, read by Dominick Rabrun. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - content warnings for death, gun violence, and racism

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#PC909: Resurrection Rum by Stephanie Malia Morris, read by Dominick Rabrun. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - content warnings for death, gun violence, and racism ALBEMARLE COUNTY, July 1927: WANTED! One ROBERT HOWARD for the MURDER of JOHN LITTLE. Physical description: NEGRO MALE of lightish hue, aged SEVENTEEN or EIGHTEEN, of LOW STATURE and AVERAGE BUILD, head PEANUT-SHAPED with CLOSE-CROPPED hair. Known to dress above his station in GENTLEMAN’S SUITS, outrageous HANDKERCHIEFS, and WING-TIPPED SHOES (stolen, all). Wanted also for the illegal possession and transport of RESURRECTION RUM across county lines. KNOWN ASSOCIATES: a gang of six or seven Negro rumrunners both MALE and FEMALE variously aged TWELVE to NINETEEN (descriptions, sketches below). DANGEROUS BY ASSOCIATION. REWARD $100 for information leading to hideout and/or capture. Suspect known to be ARMED and HIGHLY DANGEROUS. DO! NOT!! APPROACH!!! Report all sightings to the Albemarle County Sheriff’s Office at the following address: ——
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Sep 9
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Sep 9
#PC908: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - Said the Princess by Dani Atkinson, read by Andrew K. Hoe, Kitty Sarkozy, and Katherine Inskip. Previously ran as #PC722 and first published by Daily Science Fiction. Rated PG-13

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#PC908: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - Said the Princess by Dani Atkinson, read by Andrew K. Hoe, Kitty Sarkozy, and Katherine Inskip. Previously ran as #PC722 and first published by Daily Science Fiction. Rated PG-13 Once upon a time in a far-off land, in a tiny room, in a tall tower, at the centre of a vast and impenetrable maze, the princess Adrienna cocked her head and frowned. “Who said that?” said the princess. She looked around the tower room, but saw no one. “This isn’t funny. Who’s there?” said the princess. She crouched by the bed. Underneath it she found the chamber pot and a nervous brown spider. The princess shuddered. Straightening up quickly and dusting off her rosy skirts, she paced the circumference of the room, searching every inch.
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Sep 3
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Sep 3
#PC907: Maintenance Phase by A. D. Ellicott, read by Emma Osborne. Previously Published by Body of Work, ed. C.Z. Tacks, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (2023) Rated PG - Content warnings for fatphobia and eating disorders.

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#PC907: Maintenance Phase by A. D. Ellicott, read by Emma Osborne. Previously Published by Body of Work, ed. C.Z. Tacks, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (2023) Rated PG - Content warnings for fatphobia and eating disorders. Mary woke in an unfamiliar bed, gasping for breath. She recalled the shots, the dancing, the giggling stumble into a stranger’s apartment while they pulled off each other’s dresses. Her internal organs felt cramped up together, as though they were rats fighting for scarce space in the sewers. Her plan was to sneak home later in the night and return to her own form, but instead she’d slept shifted. She groaned and smacked her hand over her eyes. “She wakes!” someone yelled from outside the open bedroom door. Her bedmate from last night walked in, red hair in a messy bun and spatula held aloft. “Want pancakes?”
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 28
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PodCastle is part of the Escape Artists Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and everything we do is funded by donations from our audience. If you want to support us and our sisters in producing fiction like this, please consider donating: www.patreon.com/EAPodcasts
PodCastle 906: DOUBLE EPISODE: The House, The Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks and To Pluck a Twisted String - PodCastle
The House, the Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks by Amanda Helms   The house wakes from its somnolence as the witch trudges up the path made of tarts. Through its rock-candy windows, the house scans her fig...
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 28
#PC906: DOUBLE EPISODE: The House, The Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks by Amanda Helms, read by Cherrae L. Stuart. Previously published by Lightspeed. And To Pluck a Twisted String by Anne Leonard, read by Christiana Ellis. Previously published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rated PG.
#PC906: DOUBLE EPISODE: The House, The Witch, and Sugarcane Stalks by Amanda Helms read by Cherrae L. Stuart. Previously published by Lightspeed. And To Pluck a Twisted String by Anne Leonard, read by Christiana Ellis. Previously published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rated PG.
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 19
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 19
#PC905: The Next Dead Wife by Jeanna Mason Stay read by Valerie Valdes. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warnings for coercive control, domestic violence, and murder.

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#PC905: The Next Dead Wife by Jeanna Mason Stay read by Valerie Valdes. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warnings for coercive control, domestic violence, and murder. Every time a new wife crosses my husband’s threshold, I tell myself this time will be different. This time I’ll go free. As her body falls to the floor, I’ll seize my opportunity. As her soul rises from her body, I will snatch what should be mine — no cliched tunnel of light, just a doorway into the afterlife. But it will be my turn this time, my door. I’ll take it before she can. Not that I’ve been able to yet. When the moment comes, I am frozen in place. I can only watch as she enters the door and disappears. And I hate her for it.
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 12
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 12
#PC904: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Illuminated Dragon by Sarah Prineas read by Steve Anderson. Previously ran as #PC018 and first published by Strange Horizons. Rated G.

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#PC904: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Illuminated Dragon by Sarah Prineas read by Steve Anderson. Previously ran as #PC018 and first published by Strange Horizons. Rated G. Rafe Greatorex thought he'd spotted a dragon. From where he stood on the cobbled street that ran between the leaning tenements, only a narrow strip of sky was visible. Rafe craned his neck. He was sure -- almost sure -- that something had flown by, above. A black shadow, an X against the distant blue. He looked down again, rubbing his neck. No, it was nothing. Dragons had been outlawed thirty years ago. He must have imagined it. Sighing, he adjusted his glasses, took up the string bag of potatoes with one hand and the canvas bag of books and supplies with the other, and trudged on toward home.
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 6
PodCastle is part of the Escape Artists Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and everything we do is funded by donations from our audience. If you want to support us and our sisters in producing fiction like this, please consider donating: www.patreon.com/EAPodcasts
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Aug 6
#PC903: On the Shoulders of Giants by Charles Chin read by Eric Valdes.
A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG.

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#PC903: On the Shoulders of Giants by Charles Chin read by Eric Valdes. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG. I was born a T12. Sure, it was the lowest of the thoracic vertebrae, but it was higher than any of the lumbars. I should be thankful to have been born high enough to see above the clouds. The L2s and L3s that climb beside me spent most of their youth in the haze below, unable to see the sun, not knowing how much more of the giant there was left to climb. But not me: fortunate me. I grasp at rocky outcroppings and pull myself up the well worn stairs, carved into the ground by those who came before me. Moss hangs from the edges where feet avoid stepping, lest they slip down into the endless void of white below. The wall to my left rises as a sheer cliff of granite, or perhaps marble. It is difficult to know from the amount of lichen and foliage that hang down like curtains. But through the small holes cleaned out by the hands of travelers before, I can sometimes see the glint of the giant who breathes underneath.
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Jul 31
PodCastle is part of the Escape Artists Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and everything we do is funded by donations from our audience. If you want to support us and our sisters in producing fiction like this, please consider donating: www.patreon.com/EAPodcasts
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · Jul 31
#PC902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E. M. Faulds read by Eliza Chan.
A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warning for ableist attitudes.

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#PC902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E. M. Faulds read by Eliza Chan. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warning for ableist attitudes.
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