Authors : Rajiv Moté, KB Sluss and Anica Lewis Narrators : Alex Acks, John Chu and Marguerite Kenner Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 242: Little Wonders 11: Flash Fiction Contest Finalists is a Cast of Wonders original. All three stories are Cast of Wonders originals! […]

• Authors: Anica Lewis, Rajiv Moté, KB Sluss • Narrators: Alex Acks, John Chu, Marguerite Kenner • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • All three stories are Cast of Wonders originals! • Read along with Multiple Choice • Read along with Remember the Ifrit • Read along with Not-So-Stock Photos • 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 Anica Lewis is a Youth Services librarian as well as a writer and reader, the better to squeeze more books and bookish people into her life. She is definitely not the secret identity of any superhero. Why would you even ask that? You can follow her online or on Twitter.         Alex Acks is a writer, geologist, and dapper AF. Their debut novel, Hunger Makes the Wolf, was published by Angry Robot Books under the pen name Alex Wells. Their debut novel, “Hunger Makes the Wolf”, is available at fine booksellers now. Alex has written for Six to Start and been published in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and […]

Author : Amanda Helms Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Fonda Lee Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Ashley Mackenzie Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 241: Mr. Quacky in Space (Artemis Rising 3) is a Cast of Wonders original. Illustration by Mat Weller. Artemis Rising logo designed by Scott Pond. Theme music is “Appeal to […]

• Narrated by Katherine Inskip • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Guest host Fonda Lee • A Cast of Wonders original! • Learn more about Artemis Rising • 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 Amanda Helms is an SFF writer living in her home state of Colorado. Favorite things include the perfect cup of tea, walking her dog on sunny days, and fuzzy socks on cold ones. She’s a 2014 graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop, and her fiction has appeared previously at Cast of Wonders. You can follow her on her website and on Twitter. Katherine Inskip teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her (infrequent) spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is a mother to two boys, and enjoys chaos, water-fights, tree-climbing, and thwarting plans for world domination. Katherine is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles, narrates for a variety of podcasts, and wishes she’d started slush reading decades ago. You […]

Author : Marie Vibbert Narrator : Roberto Suarez Host : Gail Carriger Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Ashley Mackenzie Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 240: Cross The Street (Artemis Rising 3) is a Cast of Wonders original. Illustration by Mat Weller. Artemis Rising logo designed by Scott Pond. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” […]

• Narrated by Roberto Suarez • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Guest host Gail Carriger • A Cast of Wonders original! • Learn more about Artemis Rising • 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 Marie Vibbert is a member of SFWA and an IT professional from Cleveland, Ohio. She has ridden 17% of the roller coasters in the United States and played for the Cleveland Fusion women’s tackle football team. Find out more about her online or follow her on Twitter.         Roberto Suarez is a community college advocate and program manager in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-host and producer of A Pod of Casts: The Game of Thrones Podcast and Radio Westworld: The Westworld Podcast. You can find Roberto on the web and on Twitter.         Gail Carriger writes comedies of manners mixed with paranormal romance. Her steampunk books include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Supernatural Society, and Delightfully Deadly series for […]

Author : Rati Mehrotra Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Alethea Kontis Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Ashley Mackenzie Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 239: Hackers’ Faire (Artemis Rising 3) is a Cast of Wonders original. Illustration by Mat Weller. Artemis Rising logo designed by Scott Pond. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye […]

• Narrated by Wilson Fowlie • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Guest host Alethea Kontis • A Cast of Wonders original! • Learn more about Artemis Rising • 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 Rati Mehrotra lives and writes in lovely Toronto. Her short stories have appeared in AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Apex Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Podcastle, and many more. Her debut novel, Markswoman, will be published in early 2018. You can follow her online and on Twitter.         Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits any talent he has in this area to his parents, who are both excellent at reading aloud. He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008, when he answered a call for readers on the PodCastle forum. Since then, he has gone on to become PodCastle’s most prolific narrator, reading or appearing in nearly […]

Author : Xander M. Odell Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Justina Ireland Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Ashley Mackenzie Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 238: The Absolute Temperature of Outer Space (Artemis Rising 3) is a Cast of Wonders original. Content Warning: Grief Illustration by Mat Weller. Artemis Rising logo designed by Scott […]

• Narrated by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Guest host Justina Ireland • A Cast of Wonders original! • Learn more about Artemis Rising • 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 Sandra M. Odell lives in Washington state with her husband, sons, and a grumpy orange cat. When she’s not imagining fantastic adventures in far away places, she helps run her husband’s game store. Two of her stories have previously appeared on Cast of Wonders — Episode 182 “A Troll’s Trade”, and Episode 83 “The Dictionary’s Apprentice”. You can find out more about her work online, or follow her on Twitter.       Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and three children. By day she works as a breast oncology nurse. At all other times she juggles, none too successfully, writing, reading, gaming and gardening. She has been published or has stories upcoming at EscapePod, An Alphabet of Embers, People of Color Destroy […]