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Episode #12: “Swan-Brother” by Gabriel Murray
Swan-Brother
by Gabriel Murray
The—woman—took snuff. "Good morning, Captain," she said, Capitaine in her accent. "This is a colder day than I imagined." She looked out over the swells, her mannish periwig bobbing as she tilted her head up to regard the horizon. "Do you know, I hardly expected to see it."
Gregory Everett clasped his hands behind his back. "Your Captain did the correct thing," he said.
He had. Galatea's American captain had struck colours almost as soon as the Indefatigable beat to quarters. If he hadn't Gregory would have sent him to the bottom of the sea. Gregory had no way of knowing that the privateer Galatea carried but one petty sorceress, not one of Bonaparte's magi that could kill him and his men with an incantation and a splinter of Indefatigable's hull. He'd have sunk her.
Full transcript appears under the cut.
[Music plays]
Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 12 for July 9th, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.
Our story for today is "Swan-Brother" by Gabriel Murray.
Gabriel Murray lives in New York City with two cats and a pianist. His reviews and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, We See A Different Frontier: An Anthology of Postcolonial Speculative Fiction, Ideomancer, and Daily Science Fiction. He can be found at http://orestesdrunk.wordpress.com and @orestesdrinking. He is currently working on his first novel, which is a Regency fantasy about families and bad decisions.
Our reader this week is Alasdair Stuart, the host of Pseudopod. He also writes reviews and blogs at http://alasdairstuart.com and can be found on Twitter at @AlasdairStuart.
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Swan-Brother
by Gabriel Murray
The—woman—took snuff. "Good morning, Captain," she said, Capitaine in her accent. "This is a colder day than I imagined." She looked out over the swells, her mannish periwig bobbing as she tilted her head up to regard the horizon. "Do you know, I hardly expected to see it."
Gregory Everett clasped his hands behind his back. "Your Captain did the correct thing," he said.
He had. Galatea's American captain had struck colours almost as soon as the Indefatigable beat to quarters. If he hadn't Gregory would have sent him to the bottom of the sea. Gregory had no way of knowing that the privateer Galatea carried but one petty sorceress, not one of Bonaparte's magi that could kill him and his men with an incantation and a splinter of Indefatigable's hull. He'd have sunk her.
Full transcript appears under the cut.
[Music plays]
Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 12 for July 9th, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.
Our story for today is "Swan-Brother" by Gabriel Murray.
Gabriel Murray lives in New York City with two cats and a pianist. His reviews and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, We See A Different Frontier: An Anthology of Postcolonial Speculative Fiction, Ideomancer, and Daily Science Fiction. He can be found at http://orestesdrunk.wordpress.com and @orestesdrinking. He is currently working on his first novel, which is a Regency fantasy about families and bad decisions.
Our reader this week is Alasdair Stuart, the host of Pseudopod. He also writes reviews and blogs at http://alasdairstuart.com and can be found on Twitter at @AlasdairStuart.
Swan-Brother