Journey #72 - Respite by Autumn Rachel Dryden

Edward and Ann, who carries their child, race against time to travel to the safety of the caves before the ravenous scupp shells hatch.

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Artwork courtesy of Nathan Pinnock

A special thanks to Bryan Lincoln for producing this epiosde.

Autumn Rachel Dryden is a Colorado native, though her family spent ten years living all over the country during her formative years before re-settling in Denver. The travel bug has never left. She's skinny dipped in Montana, scaled mountains in Nepal, performed mime in Chile, ridden a narrow-gauge railroad in Alaska, climbed a tower in Scotland, and eaten the best pineapple sorbet of her life in Hawaii.

She's building her own business as a massage therapist, wrangles three children, and hopes to someday own retired racing greyhounds and a hot air balloon. In her writing, she asks the question "What if?" and dreams whole worlds in answer.

After its original appearance in IGMS in 2005, "Respite" was re-printed in the IGMS anthology in 2008, and went on to inspire Bryan Thomas Schmidt to create the "Beyond the Sun" Anthology that will be released this summer, filled with stories of other worlds by Robert Heinlein, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, and more.

Autumn's next story, "Supermom: 0, Laundry: 1" is forthcoming this summer in the new magazine Blue Shift, and will be available both in print and online."

Cast of characters:

Autumn Rachel Dryden as Narrator

Lauren "Scribe" Harris as Ann

Bryan Lincoln as Nethaniel

Marshal Latham as Edward

Related Links:

Kickstarter for FLYTRAP Magazine, co-edited by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt

Kickstarter Apology

Byran Lincoln's Fullcast Podcast and My Epic Heals

Willie and Martin Handcart Companies

The Donner Party

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Journey #68 - Cyberpunk by D.K. Thompson - Issue #2 - Failsafes and Escapes

Billy is in a race against time to save his wife from Meme in cyberspace.

 

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Cover art provided by Bo Kaier, freelance illustrator / web designer, and art director for the Drabblcast.

 

The author, D.K. Thompson, is also co-editor of Podcastle, and often posts to his blog. His fiction has appeared in various anthologies, and also in podcast form at Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Varient Frequencies, and the Drabblecast.  

 

The character of Cyberpunk comes from D.K.'s YA podcast novel "The Unbelievable Origin of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid". You can find episodes 1-3 of the novel here, and episodes 4-12 here.

 

Cast of characters:

D.K. Thompson as Billy Gibson a.k.a Cyberpunk

Lauren "Scribe" Harris (of the Pendragon Variety Podcast) as Moss

Lauren “Skrybbi” Nicholson (of the Pendragon Variety Podcast) as Kelly

Clay Dugger (of The Righteous Dude's Dudecast) as Hobbes

Mur Lafferty as Lily Gibson

Marshal Latham as Tao Li

 

Related Links:

Women in Refriderators

 

Music used in this production:

Keep It In Your Arms by Wasted Heroes

Passage II  by WMRI

"The Complex", and "The Sad Trio" by Kevin MacLeod

 

 

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Journey #39 - Snakehead by Sam Schreiber

When Bill catches a large, unusual fish from the mountain lake, this group of campers was in for more than a relaxing weekend in the woods.

Episode art provided by Johanna Chambers


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The production on this episode was mostly provided by Scott Pigg, who also does a lot of audio work for the folks at HG World.

Sam Schreiber is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has previously appeared in Escape Artists' PodCastle, Conflict of Interest Theater and Cavalier Literary Couture. He works as an adjunct presenter at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he also be teaches a course in science fiction.

Cast of characters:
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as the unnamed main character
Lauren "Scribe" Harris (of the Pendragon Variety Podcast) as Alex
Jonathan McNeill (of Troll Jammies) as Darius
Tom Baker (of the Drabblecast) as Bill

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

Music used in this production: Below The Waves by Keshco, We All Fall Down by Lorenzo's Music, and music from Freestockmusic.com.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Bottom Feeding" by Tim Pratt on PodCastle.



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