Story Hour
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Every Wednesday at 7:00 PT, gather round the virtual campfire and listen to SFFH short stories read by their authors. Follow the links on our site to Zoom or Facebook. Updates by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social.
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November 19, 2025: Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers
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This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
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Having won the Ursula K. Le Guin 2025 Prize for Fiction, I’m really excited to read Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. The Saint of Bright Doors was one of my all time fave reads of 2023 and if you haven’t read it yet, I urge you to give it a go.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Having won the Ursula K. Le Guin 2025 Prize for Fiction, I’m really excited to read Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. The Saint of Bright Doors was one of my all time fave reads of 2023 and if you haven’t read it yet, I urge you to give it a go.
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#Rakesfall #BookSky
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#Rakesfall #BookSky
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Any hour can be Story Hour! Come watch! Come listen!
This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
November 19, 2025: Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers
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November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Any hour can be Story Hour! Come watch! Come listen!
This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
November 19, 2025: Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers
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November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
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Looking forward to this
This Story Hour, we are delighted to welcome Laurence Raphael Brothers back! We are equally delighted to welcome Michael Merriam back! You are welcome, too! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @lrb.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Looking forward to this
This Story Hour, we are delighted to welcome Laurence Raphael Brothers back! We are equally delighted to welcome Michael Merriam back! You are welcome, too! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @lrb.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This Story Hour, we are delighted to welcome Laurence Raphael Brothers back! We are equally delighted to welcome Michael Merriam back! You are welcome, too! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @lrb.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
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Hi! If you missed it on Wednesday, you can watch here!
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
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November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Hi! If you missed it on Wednesday, you can watch here!
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Science fiction, baby! Watch until the end to see Sonia's adorable octopus plush!
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
youtu.be/5wt7IARlO_s
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Science fiction, baby! Watch until the end to see Sonia's adorable octopus plush!
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
youtu.be/5wt7IARlO_s
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
youtu.be/5wt7IARlO_s
November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
youtu.be/5wt7IARlO_s
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
youtu.be/5wt7IARlO_s
If our spooky October scared you away, it’s safe to return to Story Hour now. This week, Sonia Focke will read us something fun! Host Daniel Marcus joins as a reader. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @soniafocke.bsky.social @danielmarcus.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If our spooky October scared you away, it’s safe to return to Story Hour now. This week, Sonia Focke will read us something fun! Host Daniel Marcus joins as a reader. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @soniafocke.bsky.social @danielmarcus.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
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This is a truly touching Story Hour (that runs more like 50 minutes), and I really want to prove that it was worth Natasha's while to log on in the middle of the British night and read to us even though she had a cold. Could you show this reading some love?
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is a truly touching Story Hour (that runs more like 50 minutes), and I really want to prove that it was worth Natasha's while to log on in the middle of the British night and read to us even though she had a cold. Could you show this reading some love?
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I've updated my blog with a post covering many writing and publishing updates from the past several months, including my recent appearance at #MileHiCon where I won the "Flash Fiction Chopped" competition. michael-haynes.blogspot.com/2025/11/rece...
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It's been a while since I put an update out here. I'm intending to work at being at least a bit more consistent about this, rather than savi...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I've updated my blog with a post covering many writing and publishing updates from the past several months, including my recent appearance at #MileHiCon where I won the "Flash Fiction Chopped" competition. michael-haynes.blogspot.com/2025/11/rece...
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Gorgeous stories, so good. Watch or listen wherever you are!
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Gorgeous stories, so good. Watch or listen wherever you are!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And folks who missed Michael's reading with Natasha Calder can watch on YouTube! youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
And folks who missed Michael's reading with Natasha Calder can watch on YouTube! youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
One magical spring evening in 2023, Natasha Calder and @michaelhaynes.bsky.social read for Story Hour. That video is now lost, but now Natasha and Michael return! They won’t weave the exact same spell, but rather will enchant us anew. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
One magical spring evening in 2023, Natasha Calder and @michaelhaynes.bsky.social read for Story Hour. That video is now lost, but now Natasha and Michael return! They won’t weave the exact same spell, but rather will enchant us anew. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
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Spookymonth is never over in my heart.
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Spookymonth is never over in my heart.
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As often happens with Story Hour, although we didn’t coordinate, our tales complement one another and have interesting intersections:
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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October 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
As often happens with Story Hour, although we didn’t coordinate, our tales complement one another and have interesting intersections:
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
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this is an awesome series (2 books this far) fun, engaging and delightful in story and drawings. perfect for fans of cozy murder mysteries and Louisa may alcolt and that era
Last chance to read THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR for free on Simon Teen this month!
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October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
this is an awesome series (2 books this far) fun, engaging and delightful in story and drawings. perfect for fans of cozy murder mysteries and Louisa may alcolt and that era
This is TONIGHT! Join us!
It’s the final Story Hour of Spookymonth! Eternal favorite M Belanger returns, and new favorite EC Dorgan makes her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is TONIGHT! Join us!
It’s the final Story Hour of Spookymonth! Eternal favorite M Belanger returns, and new favorite EC Dorgan makes her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s the final Story Hour of Spookymonth! Eternal favorite M Belanger returns, and new favorite EC Dorgan makes her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Feeling the spooky spirit? Story Hour has been celebrating Spookymonth all October long! We're not done yet, either! And did you know that our last few Octobers have been all-horror all-the-time? Check out our annual playlists on YT for all the scares you can handle! www.youtube.com/@StoryHour20...
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It's the oldest form of entertainment: sitting around telling each other beautiful lies.
Every week, Story Hour brings you an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From ...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Feeling the spooky spirit? Story Hour has been celebrating Spookymonth all October long! We're not done yet, either! And did you know that our last few Octobers have been all-horror all-the-time? Check out our annual playlists on YT for all the scares you can handle! www.youtube.com/@StoryHour20...
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Aquí podéis escuchar a dos autoras del blog, Nadia Bulkin y A. C. Wise, leyendo cada una uno de sus relatos. ¡Menudo lujo!
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Aquí podéis escuchar a dos autoras del blog, Nadia Bulkin y A. C. Wise, leyendo cada una uno de sus relatos. ¡Menudo lujo!