Wednesday, March 29, 2023Episode 47 - Marianne Villanueva: "Residents of the Deep"
California author Marianne Villanueva has no fear when it comes to writing fiction. She writes in an astonishing variety of genres, styles, tones and ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023Episode 46 - Kyle Seibel: "Master Guns"
California author Kyle Seibel joined the Navy and got to see the world. The impression it made would inform his writing with wisdom and wonder. In the...
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...
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 ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022Episode 34 - Farah Ali: "Bulletproof Bus"
Pakistani author Farah Ali lives with her family in Dubai, but her ties to her childhood home of Karachi run deep. It's often the background against w...
