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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Episode 106 - Claire Carroll: "My Two Sons"

UK author Claire Carroll is the daughter of a zoologist, which is no surprise given the ways in which her reverence for the natural world figures larg...

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Episode 105 - Nick Rees Gardner: "Psychedelicious"

In his linked story collection Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Washington DC author Nick Rees Gardner has created a fictional landscape inspire...

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Episode 104 - John Sheirer: "Security"

In his collection Stumbling Through Adulthood, Massachusetts author John Sheirer pays homage to folks like the ones he got to know while growing up in...

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Episode 103 - Kolby Granville and After Dinner Conversation: "Father Dale's Drive-thru Exorcisms"

Kolby Granville, Founder and Editor of After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy and Ethics Short Story Magazine shares his thoughts and ideas about publi...

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Episode 102 - Timothy Laurence Marsh: "The Perfect Paris Day"

Author Timothy Laurence Marsh's coastal Southern California home town set the stage for his entering college on a tennis scholarship, where he began p...

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Episode 101 - Eufemia Fantetti: "A Recipe For Disaster"

Toronto author Eufemia Fantetti is the child of Italian immigrants who emigrated to Canada in the sixties. In her story collection A Recipe for Disast...

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Episode 100 - Aaron Kreuter: "The Krasners"

In Toronto author Aaron Kreuter's linked story collection Rubble Children, he's provided a stirring and provocative portrait of a Jewish community in ...

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 Episode 99 - Nicola Winstanley: "Feeling in the Flesh"

Award-winning Ontario children's book author Nicola Winstanley makes her adult fiction debut with SMOKE (Buckrider Books), a linked story collection. ...

Thursday, May 2, 2024 Episode 95 - Charles Hanson Towne: "Shelby" (A "Found Fiction" Episode)

While we prepare for Season 3, we thought it might be fun to bring you some first-rate stories that probably haven’t seen the light of day in ages. We...

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Episode 94 - Wole Talabi

Nigerian author Wole Talabi excels at math (he's an engineer), so he creates what he calls a "fiction-equation" when beginning a story. But don't be m...

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Episode 93 - Nicole Haroutunian: "Three Times I Breathed Other People's Breath and No One Worried About Death"

New York author Nicole Haroutunian knows how to keep an audience engaged - whether, as a museum educator, it's the groups she helps find a deeper conn...

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 Episode 92 - Ananda Lima

Chicago author Ananda Lima was born in Brasilia, Brazil, and made her way to Illinois via Australia and New York while working in the field of linguis...