Pandemic special number one! I'm cooped up in my cabin so I'm going to release a bunch of my own stories, read by myself. This one first appeared in Fireside Fiction in 2016. It's a response to nihilism and misanthropy, but mostly it's about h
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About the author: Izzy Wasserstein was born and raised in Kansas. She teaches writing and literature, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. She likes
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About the author: Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. He
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This story appeared in Nick Mamatas's collection The People's Republic of Everything, published in 2018 by Tachyon Publications.
About the author: Nick Mamatas is the author of seven novels, including Love is the Law, I Am Prov
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This story appeared in the short story collection Alien Love Disaster Virus Stories, published by Small Beer Press.
About the author: Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller and a firestarter raised in the
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This story first appeared in der Freitag in 2015.
About the author: Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and activist*. She has written six books, including Bitch Doctrine
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This story first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction in 2018.
Since this interview was recorded, Cadwell's debut novel The Lesson was released.
About the author: Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State Un