Journey #141 - If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear by Ken Scholes

Mel Farrelly faces the edge of the world alone after the death of her father on Dargon's Mass Eve.  Many devout wait for the Santaman to return and save them, but Mel looks elsewhere for the fate of her future.

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Art by Gregory Manchess

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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 and 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.  If you'd like to know more about Ken, you can  contact him through his website.

Cast of characters:

Tina Connolly (of Toasted Cake, and co-host of Escape Pod) as Mel Farrelly
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Brother Simon
Bryan Lincoln (of Bryan Lincoln Productions) as the Bureaucracy man
James Silverstein (author of Necropolis) as Parson Brown
Marshal Latham as Drum Farrelly (and excerpt reader)

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Journey #139 - Double Header: What Price Convenience by Christopher Munroe & A Slight Delay by Rish Outfield

Christopher Munroe teaches us the price of convenience, and Rish Outfield wishes us a Happy (if twisted) Easter (sort of).

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Special Thanks to Bria Burton for producing today's stories, and to Keith Teklits for editing the commentary!!

Cast of characters:

What Price Convenience
James Silverstien as Narrator
Big Anklevich (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Customer
Rish Outfield (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Old Merchant

A Slight Delay
Big Anklevich (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Narrator
Rish Outfield (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as TWA passenger; and Captain
Bria Burton as Flight Attendant, Bria; and hispanic passenger
Heather Lenhart as Passenger
Renee Chambliss as Passenger
Marshal Latham as the Air Marshal

Christopher Munroe is an actor/author/comedian from Calgary, Canada, where he lives, works, writes and spends too much time on Twitter. He’s also a prolific and podcasted author of short and flash fiction, Christopher has also written the very entertaining surrealist horror novel, Broken Escalator, which he spent months of his life writing, and now finds himself mildly nervous every time he’s inside a mall.

Rish Outfield is a fan of Horror films, Eighties music, and the television work of Joss Whedon. He enjoys chasing after frogs, talking about comic book characters, and thinking about the Star Wars Trilogy. He is a voice actor, audiobook narrator, and podcaster, and can be heard co-hosting the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and That Gets My Goat podcasts, where he and Big Anklevich entertainingly waste much of their time. He also features his own stories on the Rish Outcast podcast.  He has been a writer of short stories all of his life, but has only recently begun to share his work with others. He once got a job because of his Sean Connery impersonation, but has lost two due to his Samuel L. Jackson impression.

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