This week I am reading from the excellent Cascade by Rachel A Rosen.

RACHEL A. ROSEN lives and makes trouble in Tkaronto (Toronto) in the country currently known as Canada. A genre strumpet with an outlook darker than VantaBlack, she straddles urban fantasy, cosmic horror, dystopian futures, and eco-fiction. Her stone-cold bummer of a first novel, Cascade (The Sleep of Reason Book 1), was published by The BumblePuppy Press in 2022, and with Zilla Novikov, she’s the co-author of The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die. When she’s not hammering out the next book in the Sleep of Reason series, you can find her either under one of several cats, designing book covers, or indoctrinating the youth in hopes of getting them to come to class every now and again.

You can buy it on Amazon, the BumblePuppy Press, Beyond Cataclysm if you're in the UK, or order it from your local bookshop.

https://mybook.to/cascade

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Hello and welcome to episode 1 of First Chapter Reads, where each week I will read the first chapter of a book(with the authors permission of course)

For the first week I read from my own book ‘Cold Rising’ and I also broke the rules and read the prologue instead of the first chapter, but I explain why.

If anyone would like me to read the first chapter of their book please do get in touch with me, you can find me on Substack, Twitter or through the lowerdecks.com website

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Audio version of the short story "Marriage Clause" by H. L. Hinkle, first published in Into the Unknown: A Science Fiction Anthology by Lower Decks Press.

Voice: Briana Bedore
Audio engineer: Brooks Bedore

Explore this and other stories in the full anthology: https://www.lowerdeckspress.com/books-multiformat/into-the-unknown

Image courtesy of Zack Walker via Unsplash.com.

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