Author : Laura-Marie Steele Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 203: The Universe Dress is a Cast of Wonders original. The Universe Dress by Laura-Marie Steele I’ve never been the biggest fan of weddings. Some women plan weddings from childhood. They draw […]

• Narrated by Dani Daly • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • 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 Laura-Marie Steele is a writer from Canterbury, England. Her work can also be found in Black Treacle Magazine, and you can follow her on Twitter. Dani Daly is a frequent narrator for Cast of Wonders and has been a slush reader since the Spring of 2015. You last heard her when she hosted her Staff Pick Episode in January. Come and see her in our forums where she also serves as the Cast of Wonders Community Manager, or on Twitter.         Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read along with the text of the story.

Author : Vonnie Winslow Crist Narrator : Andrew Reid Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Originally published in Potter’s Field 4 Henkie’s Fiddle by Vonnie Winslow Crist Stirred by a bone-chilling wind, the lone tree in the unsanctified section of the cemetery rattled its bare branches. Duffy had the […]

• Narrated by Andrew Reid • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally published in Potter’s Field 4 • 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 Vonnie Winslow Crist is an author and illustrator living in a rural Maryland. She is editor of The Gunpowder Review and senior editor at Pole to Pole Publishing, a speculative fiction small press. Vonnie’s books include The Enchanted Skean (a Compton Crook Award Finalist), Owl Light, The Greener Forest, and Leprechaun Cake & Other Tales. Her short fiction has been published in Chilling Ghost Short Stories, Tales of the Talisman, Dia de los Muertos, Faerie Magazine, and elsewhere. Vonnie’s paintings have been featured on the covers of Bards and Sages, FrostFire Worlds, Outposts of Beyond, Illumen, and Scifikuest. A cloverhand who has found so many four-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie strives to celebrate the power of myth in her writing and art. You can find her work and portfolio online, or follow her on Twitter. Born in Scotland, Andrew Reid is a […]

Author : Dantzel Cherry Narrator : M.K. Hobson Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producers : Jeremy Carter and Rikki LaCoste Discuss on Forums Originally published in Galaxy’s Edge (July/August 2015) Miss Darcy’s First Intergalactic Ballet Class by Dantzel Cherry Darcy walked up to the gilded starship door and it dissolved, revealing what had to be the gaudiest […]

• Narrated by M K Hobson • Audio production by Rikki LaCoste • Originally published in Galaxy’s Edge (July/August 2015) • 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 By day, Dantzel Cherry teaches pilates and raises her daughter, and by night/naptime she writes. Her baking hours follow no rhyme or reason. She is prone to dance as the need arises, and it often does. Her stories have appeared in Fireside, Galaxy’s Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and other magazines and anthologies. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband, daughter, and requisite cat. Follow her online or on Twitter.       For your narrator we welcome back the fantastic M K Hobson, who has decided to follow a time-honored authorial tradition and become a bitter recluse. She swore off social media and left her website to go to seed. At the moment, she exists only as a voice on short fiction podcasts such as Podcastle and here at Cast of Wonders. She leavens the tedium of her vastly expanded free […]

Author : Eugie Foster Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Originally published in The 3rd Alternative, Issue #40 (2004) Running on Two Legs by Eugie Foster My mother used to tell stories of how I talked to animals when I was a little girl. And […]

• Narrated by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally published in The 3rd Alternative, Issue #40 (2004) • 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 Eugie Foster was an American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her collections of short stories include Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, published in 2009. After receiving her master’s degree in psychology, she retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. She also edited legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time she suspected were another venture into flights of fancy. She was also a director for Dragon*Con and edited their onsite newsletter, the Daily Dragon. Eugie won the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast. She’s also been a finalist for the Hugo, Washington Science Fiction […]

Author : Nichole Feldringer Narrator : Michelle Ristuccia Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 199: Leapling is a Cast of Wonders original. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Leapling by Nicole Feldringer My brother, Jack, parks his beater at the […]

• Narrated by Michelle Ristuccia • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • 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 Nicole Feldringer holds a PhD in atmospheric sciences and a master in geophysics. In 2011, she attended the Viable Paradise Writer’s Workshop, and her fiction has previously appeared in the anthologies Press Start to Play and Loosed Upon the World both edited by John Joseph Adams. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Find her on Twitter. ‘Leapling’ is a Cast of Wonders original.       For your narrator this week we welcome back Michelle Ristuccia, who listeners may remember from a previous pair of really excellent stories. Michelle enjoys slowing down time in the middle of the night to read and review speculative fiction, because sleeping offspring are the best motivation. You can find out more about her writing and her rabid love of science fiction and fantasy at her website, stalk her on Twitter, or read her reviews at Tangent Online.       […]