Authors : Jennifer Lee Rossman, Jenny Rae Rappaport, Evan Berkow, David Steffen and Christine Lucas Narrators : Stephanie Malia Morris, Summer Fletcher, Kate Baker, Makenzi Newman and Mur Lafferty Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 257: Little Wonders 13: Death is a Cast of Wonders original. […]

• Content Warning: Grief • Authors: Jennifer Lee Rossman, Jenny Rae Rappaport, Evan Berkow, David Steffen and Christine Lucas • Narrators: Stephanie Morris, Setsu Uzume, Kate Baker, Makenzi Newman and Mur Lafferty • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Always There was originally published in Lakeside Circus in February 2014 • Chrysalis, The Black Veils, Moments in the Crawl, and Even Death are all Cast of Wonders originals! • Read along with the text of the stories: Chrysalis, The Black Veils, Moments in the Crawl, Always There and Even Death • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Jennifer Lee Rossman is a science fiction geek from New York, where she crochets, watches Doctor Who, and threatens to run over people with her wheelchair. Her short story “Scrapefoot” is featured in Circuits & Slippers, an anthology of sci-fi fairy tale re-tellings. Follow her online and on Twitter.     Stephanie Morris is a professional fangirl by day and the lone library assistant staffing a college circulation desk at night. She has narrated […]

Author : Victoria Sandbrook Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Leigh Wallace Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 256: Phalium Arium Ssp, Amans is a Cast of Wonders original. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available from Promo DJ or his Facebook page. Phalium arium ssp. anams […]

• Narrated by Katherine Inskip • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Read along with the text of the story • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Victoria Sandbrook is a fantasy writer, freelance editor, and Viable Paradise XVIII graduate. You can find her work at Shimmer, in Sword & Steam Short Stories, and now on Cast of Wonders. She is an avid hiker, sometimes knitter, long-form talker, and initiate baker. She often loiters around libraries, checking out anything from picture books to monographs. She spends most of her days attempting to wrangle a ferocious, destructive, jubilant tiny human. Victoria, her husband, and their daughter live in Brockton, Massachusetts. She reviews books and shares writerly nonsense online at on Twitter.   Katherine Inskip, assistant editor of Cast of Wonders, teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles. You can follow her online and on Twitter. […]

Author : Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Narrator : Marguerite Kenner Host : Xander M. Odell Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Originally published in Interzone Magazine #258 (May/June 2015) Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Doors by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam It had been three months since I’d taken my brother anywhere. […]

• Guest host Sandra M. Odell • Narrated by Marguerite Kenner • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally published in Interzone Magazine #258 (May/June 2015) • Read along with the text of the story. • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Toast, Clarkesworld, PRISM International, and Lightspeed. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program and curates the annual Art & Words Show in Fort Worth, Texas. She lives with her partner and two literarily-named cats: Gimli and Don Quixote. You can visit her on Twitter or through her website.       Marguerite Kenner is a native Californian who has forsaken sunny paradise to live with her true love in Merrye Olde England. She frequently wears so many hats that she needs two heads. When she’s not grappling with legal conundrums as a commercial solicitor, lecturing, editing Cast of Wonders, or helping behind the scenes as COO of Escape Artists, […]

Author : S. Qiouyi Lu Narrator : S. Qiouyi Lu Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Originally published in Anathema Magazine (April 2017) Content Warning: Grief Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. A Complex Filament of Light by S. Qiouyi Lu After winter, spring in Antarctica is almost pleasant, most […]

• Content Warning: Grief • Narrated by S. Qiouyi Lu • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally published in Anathema Magazine (April 2017) • Read along with the text of the story • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes S. Qiouyi Lu is a writer, editor, and translator who has also narrated for PodCastle, GlitterShip, and Acacia Moon Productions. You can visit their website or follow them on Twitter.         Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.  

Author : Sarah Gailey Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Jeremy Carter Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 253: Single Parent is a Cast of Wonders original. Content Warning: Grief; a few early F-bombs Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available from Promo DJ or his Facebook page. Single Parent By […]

• Content Warning: A few early F-bombs • Narrated by Rish Outfield • Audio production and gust host Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Read along with the text of the story. • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Hugo and Campbell award finalist Sarah Gailey is an internationally-published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and she is a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Her most recent fiction credits include Mothership Zeta, Fireside Fiction, and the Speculative Bookshop Anthology. Her debut novella, River of Teeth, is out now. She has a novel forthcoming from Tor Books in spring 2019. Gailey lives in beautiful Oakland, California with her husband and two scrappy dogs. You can find links to her work at her website, or follow her on Twitter.   Rish Outfield can be found regularly at The Dunesteef podcast, which he produces with Big Anklevich, and you can hear him pretty much everywhere in the […]