• Narrated by Megan Leigh • Guest host Dani Daly • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • 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 J.W. Alden lives near West Palm Beach, Florida with his wife Allison, who doesn’t mind the odd assortment of musical instruments and medieval weaponry that decorate his office (as long as he brandishes the former more often than the latter). Alden is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop, a 1st Place Writers of the Future winner, and an active member of SFWA. Read more from him at his website, or follow him on Twitter.       Megan Leigh is editor of pop culture blog Pop Verse and co-host of feminist speculative fiction podcast Breaking the Glass Slipper. Her writing has appeared on SFWA, SFF World, Pornokitsch, and Writers’ Workshop. You can follow Megan on Twitter.         Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.