Journey #119 - Amid The Steep Sky's Commotion: A Tale of the Airship Ozymandias by Josh Roseman

A passenger of the airship Ozymandias is dead, and it is up to Constable Rebecca McDonald to find the killer.

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A special thanks to Jeremy Carter and Christopher Munroe for producing this epiosde.

Josh Roseman (not the trombonist) lives in Georgia USA. His writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Escape Pod, and the Crossed Genres anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land. His fiction has been reprinted by the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and StarShipSofa, and his voice has been heard on two Escape Artists and all five District of Wonders podcasts. He is a 2013 graduate of the Taos Toolbox writing workshop. When not writing, he mostly complains about the fact that he’s not writing. 

Cast of characters:

Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Constable McDonald, Katya Iyarina, and others
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Tony Peters
Becky Shrimpton  as Marianne
Christopher Munroe as Captain St. Pierre
Jeremy Carter as the Meteorologist
Marshal Latham as Commander Markel

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space


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Journey #66 - Alek and Elizabeth and the End of the World by Michael Grey

The title says it all.

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Michael Grey was born and grew up in West Yorkshire, England and now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two boys.  His work, featuring explosions, giant tanks and strange creatures, can be found in print and online and has been featured in the ‘Penny Dread Tales Anthology’ from Runeright Press, and the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. He has also had other work, not featuring explosions, giant tanks and strange creatures, in ‘The Life and Times of Chester Lewis’ anthology from the Australian Literature Review.

He does not have the writer-obligatory cat, but there is a red switch in his cupboard which he is almost certain turns the lights on his street off and on. The weight of this responsibility makes him old before his time. He can be reached at www.michaelgrey.com.au

Special Thanks to Christopher Munroe for producing this story.

Christopher Munroe is a author/actor/comedian from Calgary, Alberta whose fiction has appeared in the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, the Way of the Buffalo and Journey Into… podcast.  His debut novel, Broken Escalator, is available now in eBook and as a podcast at Podiobooks.

Cast of characters:
Christopher Munroe as the Narrator
Dan Gibbins as Alek
Becky Shrimpton as Elizabeth
 

Realated Links:
Man Dies Due To Escalator
 

Music used in this production:
"Drop the Thought" by djmütze

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Journey #61 - The Boy Who Could Bend and Fall by Ken Scholes

Focus Jones, a.k.a Slinky Boy, has an interesting way of escaping his reality.

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Ken Scholes grew up in a trailer outside a smallish logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest.  Baptized into Story at a young age, he fed himself on Speed Racer, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants and Marine Boy sprinkled with a generous dose of dinosaur picture books.  When he was thirteen, he read Bradbury's essay "How to Keep and Feed a Muse" and knew he had to be a writer. When he was fourteen, he started writing stories of his own and by fifteen, he had started his own Rejection Slip Collection. 

After a long break away from writing, Ken returned to it after logging time as a sailor, soldier, preacher, musician, label gun repairman, retail manager and nonprofit director. He sold his first story to Talebones Magazine in 2000 and won the Writers of the Future contest in 2004. His quirky, offbeat fiction continues to show up in various magazines and anthologies like Polyphony 6, Weird Tales and Clarkesworld Magazine.

In 2006, his short story "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise" appeared in the August issue of Realms of Fantasy. Later that year, inspired and taunted by his friends and family to finally write a novel, Ken extended that story aand Lamentation was born. Lamentation is the first in a five book series from Tor Books called The Psalms of Isaak.  He has since also written Canticle, Antiphon, and Requiem in that series.

Ken lives near Portland, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes and their twin daughters: Elizabeth and Rachel.  If you'd like to know more about Ken, you can  contact him through his website or through his blog. 

Special Thanks to Christopher Munroe for producing this story.

Christopher Munroe is a author/actor/comedian from Calgary, Alberta whose fiction has appeared in the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, the Way of the Buffalo and Journey Into… podcasts, and numerous other places around the web, and whose debut novel, Broken Escalator, is available now in eBook and as a podcast at Podiobooks. He likes words and ideas, and occasionally has trouble seeing the difference between horror and comedy, which has led to unexpectedly amusing stories and absolutely terrifying standup sets…

Cast of characters:

Christopher Munroe as the Narrator, and Focus Jones
Brad Duffy as Someone
Alex McDonald as Another
Cliff Lowe as Ninja Bob
Kat Fullerton as Angela and/or Focus' wife
Laurence Simon as Uncle Joe
Michelle Ristuccia as Aunt Margaret
Alex Mackie as the Guidance Counselor
Becky Shrimpton as the Real Counselor

Realated Links:

"Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk" by Ken Scholes on Escape Pod
Salvdore Dali

Spellbound (1945)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Solaris (2002)
Sphere
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll


Music used in this production:
"Trippy" by Voice


Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.


Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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