Wednesday, July 17, 2024Episode 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, 2024Episode 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, 2024Episode 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. ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022Episode 30 - Steven Ostrowski: "Ensemble of One" and "Even on Good Nights"
Connecticut author Steven Ostrowski started life as a scrappy city kid from a large family on Staten Island. He developed a love of ice hockey back th...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022Episode 31 - Elizabeth Trueblood: "Life Partners"
Wisconsin-born author Elizabeth Trueblood writes stories that sometimes dance around the speculative, and at other times dive headlong into it. She po...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022Episode 32 - Cheryl Pappas: "This Violent and Cherished Earth"
In writing speculative fiction, Massachusetts author Cheryl Pappas sees a responsibility "to acknowledge the strange in everything." The co...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022Episode 33 - First Annual Holiday Episode!
We celebrate the holidays with a cavalcade of holiday-themed short stories, written by some of the best contemporary writers in the field. Six profess...
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...
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, 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...
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 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...