Wednesday, March 15, 2023Episode 45 - Tanya Žilinskas: "Sillage"
California author Tanya Žilinskas has made her home of Marin County the backdrop for many of her stories. She is acutely aware that the perception of ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023Episode 44 - Justin Bryant: "On These Seas, Colors Wash to Gray"
In his stories, North Carolina author Justin Bryant is compelled to write about the things that fill him with fear. From forces of nature that wrest c...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023Episode 43 - Maureen Aitken: "Tainted," "Bigfoot" and "Roby Burns"
Minneapolis author Maureen Aitken has written a love letter to her home town of Detroit with the evocative and heart-warming stories in her collection...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023Episode 42 - Stanley Stocker: "The List"
Washington, DC area author Stanley Stocker knew he wanted to be a lawyer from the age of ten. What he discovered as an adult was a love for writing fi...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023Episode 41 - Emily Mirengoff: "It Could Be Worse Than California"
Washington, DC area author Emily Mirengoff loves the unreliable narrator. Her stories with first person narratives feature the kinds of interior mono...
Sunday, February 12, 2023Episode 96: A Valentine's Day Micro Fiction Sampler
We're celebrating Valentine's Day with a micro fiction sampler of love stories. They're not your grandma's love stories, however. These are of the lit...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023Episode 40 - Pamela Painter: "Deck"
Author Pamela Painter is one of the most respected writers and educators in the world of short fiction. Her workbook "What If? Writing Exercises ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023Episode 39 - Evan Morgan Williams: "A House Call"
Portland, Oregon author Evan Morgan Williams gives a mini-master class on writing noir literary fiction. It's the genre he's chosen for his ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023Episode 38 - Will Musgrove: Selected Flash Stories
In his highly original flash fiction, Iowa author Will Musgrove applies his own unique brand of twisted logic to scenes from daily life. Zoo cages bec...
Hawaiian author Melissa Llanes Brownlee explains life on the islands as only an indigenous person who was born and raised there can. In her fiction, H...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023Episode 36 - Avitus B. Carle: "That Feeling of Life"
Author Avitus B. Carle lives and writes just on the edge of Philadelphia. She has built a remarkable body of work, creating some of the most memorable...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023Episode 35 - Stephanie Parent: "Deer, Girl"
Baltimore, MD author Stephanie Parent reveals some of the mysteries of her lived experience as a submissive in a commercial BDSM dungeon while living ...