Authors : Adam Gaylord and J. J. Litke Narrators : Dani Daly and Katherine Inskip Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 210: Little Wonders 8 – Embracing Change is a Cast of Wonders original. The There-It-Is Store By Adam Gaylord The bell over the door jingled […]

• Authors: Adam Gaylord and J. J. Litke • Narrators: Dani Daly and Katherine Inskip • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • The There-It-Is Store originally appeared in T. Gene Davis’s Speculative Fiction Blog. • 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 Our first story is The There-It-Is Store by Adam Gaylord, originally published on T. Gene Davis’s Speculative Fiction Blog. Adam lives with his wife and daughter in Loveland, Colorado where he’s rarely more than ten feet from either cake or craft beer. His recently released gladiatorial fantasy novel Sol of the Coliseum is all about hope (as in, he hopes you’ll read it). Follow him on Goodreads or his infrequently updated blog. Your narrator for this story is Dani Daly, our newly minted assistant editor. Dani lives, works, dreams and plays on Long Island, New York with a husband and some cats. She is on Twitter often and updates her blog on very rare occassions when something extra special happens. All her links are available on our newly updated […]

Author : Mary E. Lowd Narrator : Mat Weller Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Originally appeared in Allasso (Volume 3) A Real Stand-Up Guy by Daniel and Mary E. Lowd Topher checked his watch and peeked out around the dusky red stage curtain.  There was a full house […]

• Narrated by Mat Weller • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally appeared in Allasso (Volume 3) • 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 Mary E. Lowd is a science fiction and furry author; her husband Daniel Lowd is a computer science professor. You can learn more about Mary’s writing online. The sequel to this story, the novella When a Cat Loves a Dog, won an Ursa Major Award! Mat Weller is the servant to a lovely family in eastern Pennsylvania. After his wife and kids go to sleep at night, he sometimes re-watches old episodes of X-Files on Netflix and other times retires to his basement booth where he records noises that get played on the Internet. Rumor has it he also makes delightful chocolate chip cookies. Learn more by following him online 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 : Amanda C. Davis Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producers : Jeremy Carter and Rikki LaCoste Discuss on Forums Originally appeared in Wolves and Witches: A Fairy Tale Collection (2013) Questing for Princesses by Amanda C. Davis Prince Harold swore off marriage at the age of six, when his older […]

• Narrated by Katherine Inskip • Originally appeared in Wolves and Witches: A Fairy Tale Collection (2013) • 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 C. Davis writes dark fantasy, light horror, and the very softest science fiction. She has an engineering degree and an obsession with baking the perfect macaron. Her short fiction and poetry was collected in 2013 along with her sister Megan Engelhardt‘s work in Wolves and Witches: A Fairy Tale Collection, where this story first appeared. Check our her website and follow her on Twitter. The story is narrated for you by slush wrangler Katherine Inskip. Katherine teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own, which you can read at her blog, Trisigmatic. She’s on Twitter as well. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read along with the text of the story.

Author : Jake Walters Narrator : Jason Arquin Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 207: Millions Times Eight is a Cast of Wonders original. Content Warning: Spiders. Lots and lots of spiders. Millions Times Eight by Jake Walters Mick looked at the letter to his parents […]

• Phobia Warning: Spiders • Narrated by Jason Arquin • 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 Jake Walters has been published in several places, including once before here at Cast of Wonders. He teaches English in Transylvania, and does a passable impression of Bruce Springsteen.         The story is narrated by the host of the Overcast podcast, Jason Arquin. J.S. Arquin is a writer, actor, musician, stiltwalker, and avid bicyclist living in Portland, Oregon. When not doing any of those things, he spends an unhealthy amount of his time and money producing and narrating fantastic stories on his own speculative fiction podcast.         Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read along with the text of the story.

Author : Krystal Claxton Narrator : Paul Cram Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Originally published in Writers of the Future (Volume 31) Planar Ghosts (Part Two) By Krystal Clayton Pup sits up as the bolt groans in the wall and the door opens, yellow lamplight pooling in. Alice […]

• Narrated by Paul Cram • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Originally published in Writers of the Future (Volume 31) • 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 Krystal Claxton writes speculative fiction in the sliver of time between being a parent and a full-time computer technician. She lives in Georgia with her long-suffering spouse, a dog who thinks she’s a cat, and a number of children that is subject to change. She enjoys breaking Heinlein’s Rules, getting distracted by DragonCon, and feverishly researching whichever random topic has just piqued her interest. You can keep up with her online at and on Twitter.       The very first story Paul Cram ever narrated was here at Cast of Wonders, and he seems to have been bit by the bug. While Paul still considers his voice to be somewhat new to the world of audio, he now has a few full-length novels under his belt, including the Zombie-filled love story Flirting With Death, sci-fi action story The Face Stealer and […]