LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

This episode features "TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”" by Dominica Phetteplace (©2025 by Dominica Phetteplace) "The Other River" by Jon Lasser (©2025 by Jon Lasser), both read by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Meditations from the Event Horizon" by Deborah L. Davitt (©2025 by Deborah L. Davitt) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy with Tribal Marks on his Face" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (©2025 by Oyedotun Damilola Muees) read by Mirron Willlis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Price of Miracles" by Nigel Faustino (©2025 by Nigel Faustino) and "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part II" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "To Navigate the Night" by Rich Larson (©2025 by Rich Larson) read by Alison Belle Bews, and "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part I" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition" by Rachael K. Jones (©2025 by Rachael K. Jones) and "The Lexicon of Lethe" by Sunwoo Jeong (©2025 by Sunwoo Jeong) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (©2025 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman) and "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2025 by Adam-Troy Castro), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2025 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Stefan Rudnicki + "Memories of Temperance" by Anya Ow (©2025 by Anya Ow) read by Katharine Chin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Pure of Heart" by Jake Kerr (©2025 by Jake Kerr) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and "Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library" by Cadwell Turnbull (©2025 by Cadwell Turnbull) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "My Girlfriend Is a Nebula" by David DeGraff (©2025 by David DeGraff) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "What We Don’t Know About Angels" by Kristina Ten (©2025 by Kristina Ten) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Books to Take at the End of the World" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (©2025 by Carolyn Ives Gilman) read by Stefan Rudnicki,, and "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat" by Eugenia Triantafyllou (©2025 by Eugenia Triantafyllou) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Standardized Test" by Seoung Kim (©2025 by Seoung Kim) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 2)" by Lowry Poletti (©2025 by Lowry Poletti) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "An Omodest Proposal" by Andrew Dana Hudson (©2025 by Andrew Dana Hudson) read by Stefan Rundicki, and "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 1)" by Lowry Poletti (©2025 by Lowry Poletti) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "After the God Has Moved On" by Kate Elliott (©2025 by Kate Elliott), and "Chickenfoot Soup" by Marika Bailey (©2025 by Marika Bailey) both read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "I Eat The Sky For Us" by Vijayalaxmi Samal (©2025 by Vijayalaxmi Samal) read by Janina Edwards, and "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (©2025 by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire" by Will McMahon (©2025 by Will McMahon) read by Caleb Mose, and "Bone And Marrow, Woven Into Song" by Neon Yang (©2025 by Neon Yang) read by Stefan Rudnicki). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "A Heap of Petrified Gods" by Adelehin Ijasan (©2025 by Adelehin Ijasan) read by Caleb Mose, and "Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness" by B. Pladek (©2025 by B. Pladek) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff and a Bunch More That Fell from the Sky" by David Anaxagoras (©2024 by David Anaxagoras) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Get Hyped!" by Gene Doucette (©2024 by Gene Doucette) read by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm" by Lincoln Michel (©2024 by Lincoln Michel) read by Mirron Willis, "The Godhood of Ima Day" by Cressida Blake Roe (©2024 by Cressida Blake Roe) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and " What We Plan To Do To You" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2024 by Adam-Troy Castro) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episodes features "Inside the House of Wisdom" by Tamara Masri (©2024 by Tamara Masri) read by the author, and "Ol' Big Head" by Melissa A. Watkins (©2024 by Melissa A. Watkins) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Ancestor Code Error" by Ai Jiang (©2024 by Ai Jiang), and "The Ones Who Come At Last" by P.H. Lee (©2024 by P.H. Lee), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2024 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Justine Eyre, and "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 2)" by Ashok K. Banker (©2024 by Ashok K. Banker) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness Offers Three Provocative Verbs, Separated by Commas" by Aimee Ogden (©2024 by Aimee Ogden) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "We Will Bring Siege to the Bastion of Sin that Cries Out in Your Prayer" by Hammond Diehl (© 2024 by Hammond Diehl) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Babywings" by Isabel Cañas (©2024 by Isabel Caña), read by Justine Eyre, and "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 1)" Ashok K. Banker (©2024 by Ashok K. Banker), read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An excerpt from the unfinished memoirs of Sullivan Kingsley. Text was dictated to and recorded by a Kvasir ScrivenerTM. Any poetic editorializing can be assumed in accordance with the spirit of Mr. Kingsley’s intentions, as interpreted by a conjured instance of the severed hand of Kvasir, Norse god of poetry, peacemaking, and beverage production. | © 2024 by by Philip Gelatt & JT Petty. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m not telling you this to convince you of my innocence. The verdict has already been reached, the seal of my fate has been affixed. | © 2024 by Russell Nichols. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gallam didn’t look at the clothes the family provided until he had already prepared the body. “Prepared” was putting it mildly: the man was covered in wounds—blade wounds? Bite wounds? Gouges, rips, punctures, slices. | © 2024 by Kenneth Schneyer. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" by P.A. Cornell (© 2024 by P.A. Cornell), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Hot Hearts" by Lyndsie Manusos (© 2024 by Lyndsie Manusos), narrated by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "Zekelo's Barterhouse & Emporium" by Patrick Hurley (© 2024 by Patrick Hurley), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and "Caesura" by Ashlee Lhamon (© 2024 by Ashlee Lhamon), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mother whispered to us about the beings on Earth she regretted creating; the ones whose only merits are their minds, but their minds rot so easily. | © 2024 by Ai Jiang. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talis had a problem. They’d copied the spell incorrectly, in a fury, after seeing photos of their ex with a new date in “their” spot. | © Jae Steinbacher. Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every date followed the same pattern. After the dinner and drinks, and the long moonlit walk along the canal, Jules would casually remark that the hangar was not far from here, and would they like to come see? | © 2024 by Sagan Yee. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "GaaS" by Meg Elison (© 2024 by Meg Elison), narrated by Alison Belle Bews and "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser (© 2024 by Jon Lasser), narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We were in the mines when the world was falling apart. I remember, the earth was cracking, and the plants were going limp, and the world looked dark blue, less full of life. | © 2024 Osahon Ize-Iyamu. Narrated by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can someone get the doors? Thanks. Please remember we’re on an honor system for chairs—if you’ve eaten today, please leave them for someone who hasn’t. We don’t need another fainting incident. | © 2024 by Gabriela Santiago. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "The Terrible Secret of The Immortal Bards" by Adam-Troy Castro (© 2024 by Adam-Troy Castro), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and "A Superior Knot" by Ash Huang (© 2024 by Ash Huang, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mother used to say I am a child of the river. I never understood her. I thought I would be a child of the wind, like her. | © 2024 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. Narrated by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is the year 3048 and you still hate your job. | © 2024 by Archita Mittra. Narrated by Arthur Morey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "Resistance" by Cat Rambo (© 2024 by Cat Rambo), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and "Under the Skin" by Deborah L. Davitt (© 2024 by Deborah L. Davitt), narrated by Nan McNamara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We drove out to Joshua Tree for the star party—a gathering of amateur astronomers under a clear, dark sky. It was Holly’s idea, an impromptu adventure on a Friday after work: “Hey, Lou, do you want to go look at the moon tonight?” | © 2024 by Dominique Dickey. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buddy and I abandoned our hydrogen nomad at the edge of the wastelands before trudging around the rusted chain-link perimeter of the abandoned fairgrounds, waiting for the blast of steam and guttural earthly moan to escape from the fractured soil, signifying that it was clear to enter the area. | © 2024 by Richard Thomas. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "Mud Maidens Rise" by K.A. Wiggins (© 2024 by K.A. Wiggins), narrated by Nan McNamara and "What's in a Name" by Matthew Hughes (© 2024 by Matthew Hughes), narrated by Arthur Morey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next war, the angel decided, he was going to sit out. Before the dust settled, before hosts rose and fell depending on their actions and inclinations, he fled. Cowardice, maybe. More like pragmatism, he rationalized. | © 2024 by Carrie Vaughn. Narrated by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The simulation blossomed around Nadja Gavrić like a hypercube unpacking itself into three dimensions. | © 2024 by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko. Narrated by Susan Hanfield, with Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anything can be bought or sold at the Night Market. A dozen hummingbird tongues curled like tiny snails, basted in honey and chili oil and served on a silver tray. A mermaid’s song, caught in an antique bottle of smoked glass. | © 2024 by Vanessa Fogg. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "The Only Writing Advice You'll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors" by Aimee Picchi (© 2024 by Aimee Picchi), narrated by Susan Hanfield and "The Aliens Said They Want to Party" by Joel William David Buxton (© 2024 by Joel William David Buxton), narrated by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "Songs of the Sorrow of Thorns" by Amayah Perveen (© 2024 by Amayah Perveen), narrated by Susan Hanfield and "A Guide on How to meet the Deity of Many Faces" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (© 2024 by Oyedotun Damilola Muees), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’re asleep in dreams of your father holding your head underwater, so the call from Magnolia Assisted Living goes to voicemail. | © 2024 by Dominique Dickey. Narrated by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today makes it a decade and a day I have been keeping tabs on you. I started by watching your mother, monitoring all her movements while she housed you. There’s no better time to relay this message but now. | © 2024 by Oyedotun Damilola Muees. Narrated by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve never been so busy. The cave where we work used to be calm and, if not entirely devoid of sound, then split only by the crash of waves at high tide and the occasional cry of a woman who didn’t listen when we said listen this will hurt this will hurt this will hurt. Or maybe she did listen, but she thought we meant physical pain, when what we meant was your heart your heart your heart. | © 2024 by Shanna Germain. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trouble started after my husband reported a strange Zoom call at work. | © 2024 by Dominica Phetteplace. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices