• 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.       […]

Author : Michael G. Ryan Narrator : Brian Rollins Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Rikki LaCoste Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 198: The Authorized Biography (Part 2) is a Cast of Wonders original. Show Notes This week we present the conclusion of The Authorized Biography by Michael G. Ryan, narrated by Brian […]

• Narrated by Brian Rollins • Audio production by Rikki La Coste • 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 This week we present the conclusion of The Authorized Biography by Michael G. Ryan, narrated by Brian Rollins. We provided Michael and Brian’s full biographies last week. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read along with the text of the story.

Author : Michael G. Ryan Narrator : Brian Rollins Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Rikki LaCoste Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 197: The Authorized Biography (Part 1) is a Cast of Wonders original. Galen Dara’s amazing print for Artemis Rising is available on Society6. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye […]

• Narrated by Brian Rollins • Audio production by Rikki La Coste • 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 We present this week part one of The Authorized Biography by Michael G. Ryan. Michael considers himself a late bloomer as a published author–but not as a writer. He’s been writing for over 40 years, but is only now taking all those short stories and novels out of the digital bottom drawer and submitting them for consideration. He’s planning a Kickstarter in early 2016 for his novel None of This Has Happened Yet, a fictional biography told in short stories presented in reverse order. He’s been an editor in the gaming industry for twenty years, working now as the director of publications for Privateer Press. The story is narrated by Brian Rollins. Brian is a voice actor living in the Denver, Colorado area with his wife, two kids and a Great Dane. He has narrated for a variety of podcasts as well as […]

Author : Shveta Thakrar Narrator : Mahvesh Murad Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Originally published in Faerie (Issue 31, Summer 2015) Shveta’s inspirational image, La Dormeuse, by Alain Lacki. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. She Sleeps Beneath the Sea by Shveta […]