GlitterShip
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago -GlitterShip is an LGBTQ SF&F fiction podcast - bringing you audio versions of great queer science fiction & fantasy short stories!
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Episode #76: "Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons" by Jennifer Lee Rossman
June 24, 2019 17:44 - 29 minutes - 23.3 MBOf Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons By Jennifer Lee Rossman They weren't real, but they still took my breath away. The model dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties lived on and swam in the waters around three islands in Hyde Park. Enormous things, so big that I'd heard their designer had hosted a dinner party inside one, and so lifelike! If I stared long enough, I was sure I'd see one blink. I turned to Samira and found her twirling her parasol, an act purposely designed to bel...
GlitterShip Episode #75: "The Chamber of Souls" by Zora Mai Quýnh
June 20, 2019 15:34 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBThe Chamber of Souls by Zora Mai Quỳnh Today it is announced that our quarantine is over and our refugee camp sufficiently detoxified to enter the Waterlands of Lạc, the home of our rescuers. Cheers and song rise in the air as the airship descends from the sky. A magnificently carved rồng on the bow of the vessel glistens of lacquered red, orange and gold scales, as its body, decorated by gems, wraps under the hull to reappear in a long curved tail on the other side of the vessel. ...
Episode 74: "Best for Baby" by Rivqa Rafael
June 17, 2019 14:19 - 26 minutes - 20.2 MBBest for Baby by Rivqa Rafael When I jack in, I shove the plug into its socket harder than I should. The disconnect–reconnect tone combination sounds; the terminal is as grumpy as I am. Who wouldn’t be? I’ve been kept back late in the lab to finish a job. Which was stolen from me. By the person who asked me to do this, as a “favor.” Who also happens to be my supervisor, so I can’t say no. I load up the interface, drilling straight down to the zygote’s chromosomal level. Hayden’s been a bi...
Episode #73: Désiré by Megan Arkenberg
June 13, 2019 13:25 - 45 minutes - 34.5 MBDésiré by Megan Arkenberg From Albert Magazine's interview with Egon Rowley: April 2943 Egon Rowley: It was the War that changed him. I remember the day we knew it. [A pause.] We all knew it, that morning. He came to our table in the coffee shop with a copy of Raum – do you remember that newspaper? The reviewers were deaf as blue-eyed cats, the only people in Südlichesburg who preferred Anton Fulke's operas to Désiré's – but Désiré, he had a copy of it. This was two days af...
Episode #72: "Raders" by Nelson Stanley
June 10, 2019 15:06 - 33 minutes - 28.2 MBRaders by Nelson Stanley They called themselves the Raders, and if you didn’t know, you’d swear that they were waiting for something: a bunch of boyed-up cookers, second-string hot hatches and shopping trollies adorned with bazzing body-kits parked down at the overcliff again, throttles blipping in time to the breakbeats. Throaty roar from aftermarket back-boxes you could shove your fist up, throb of the bass counter-pointed by an occasional crack as a cheap six-by-nine gave up the ghos...
Episode #71: "Barbara in the Frame" by Emmalia Harrington
April 18, 2019 17:18 - 34 minutes - 24.4 MBBarbara in the Frame by Emmalia Harrington Bab’s stomach growled for the third time in five minutes. “You were right,” she said, pushing away from her desk, “It’s time for a break.” Summer classes meant papers and tests smashed close together. There was hardly time to get enough sleep, let alone shop on a regular basis. The only food in her dorm room was an orange. Bab picked it up and walked to her dresser, where the portrait of Barbara, her grandfather’s great-aunt, sat. Fu...
Episode #70: "The Girl With All The Ghosts" by Alex Yuschik
April 12, 2019 02:23 - 36 minutes - 27.5 MBThe Girl With All the Ghosts by Alex Yuschik It’s her second-to-last Friday night at Six Resplendent Suns Funeral Palace and House of the Dead, and Go-Eun is getting terrible reception on her cell. Part of it’s because everyone’s on the network, but mostly it’s the ghosts, garden variety specters who unfold themselves into nine-story menaces, shadow-thin and barbed with carcinogens. Go-Eun would not have thought they could bring this many cell phone towers down running from fox mechs, ...
Episode #69: "Ratcatcher" by Amy Griswold
April 04, 2019 22:29 - 36 minutes - 25.9 MBRatcatcher by Amy Griswold 1918, over Portsmouth The souls in the trap writhed and keened their displeasure as Xavier picked up the shattergun. “Don’t fuss,” he scolded them as he turned on the weapon and adjusted his goggles, shifting the earpieces so that the souls’ racket penetrated less piercingly through the bones behind his ears. “It’s nothing to do with you.” The two airships were docked already, a woman airman unfastening safety ropes from the gangplank propped between ...
Episode #68: "These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God" by Rose Lemberg
March 18, 2019 22:23 - 19 minutes - 14.1 MBThese Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God by Rose Lemberg Father is trying to help me get into NASH. He thinks that seeing a real architect at work will help me with entrance exams. So father paid money, to design a house he does not want, just to get me close to Zepechiar. He is a professor at NASH and a human-Ruvan contact. Reason and matter—these are the cornerstones of Spinoza’s philosophy that the Ruvans admire so much. Reason and matter: an architect’s mind and buildi...
Episode #67: "Instar" by Carrow Narby
March 08, 2019 20:59 - 13 minutes - 10 MBInstar by Carrow Narby They just broke ground this week on a new high rise. When they cracked into the earth it flooded the neighborhood with the stench of sulfur. There’s a layer of ancient rot beneath the pavement. Centuries worth of life, ground into filth. Or so I imagine. I had to look up the source of the smell and some local news site attributed it to “organic materials” in the soil. I was worried that it might be a gas leak. For the past few mornings the wind has pushed ...
Episode #66: "Tell the Phoenix Fox, Tell the Tortoise Fruit" by Cynthia So
March 06, 2019 02:08 - 43 minutes - 30.9 MBTell the Phoenix Fox, Tell the Tortoise Fruit by Cynthia So On the day Sunae turned nine years old, there was no joyful feast. A monster burst from the sea that night and ate five people. The Mirayans gathered upon the shore to watch this, as they did every Appeasement. Sunae’s mother covered Sunae’s eyes, but Sunae still heard the screams. The crunch of brittle bone between teeth. The wet gulp of gluttonous throats. Sunae prayed to the Goddess that the warrior Yomue might rise from th...
Episode #65: "A Memory of Wind" by Susan Jane Bigelow
January 01, 2019 20:07 - 39 minutes - 29.5 MBEpisode 65 is part of the Spring 2018 issue! Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ A Memory of Wind Susan Jane Bigelow Yeni looked up at the right time, just for a single moment, and she saw a girl fly past far overhead. No one else in the wide dome of Center Garden, the bustling, cavernous heart of the greatship, noticed. Yeni had to run to catch up with her mother, who walked a few steps ahead. “Did you see?” she demanded. “A flying g...
Episode #64: "Sabuyashi Flies" by Sebastian Strange
January 01, 2019 20:04 - 36 minutes - 27.7 MBEpisode 64 is a GLITTERSHIP ORIGINAL and is part of the Spring 2018 issue! Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ Sabuyashi Flies by Sebastian Strange Sofie Faucher advertised her solution to the age-old magic problem well. I can still remember the first night I stepped out of Ellen’s dorm building, late, and looked up to see one of Faucher’s billboards; a crisp square of white and silver against the darkest, featuring Faucher’s t...
Episode #63: "Gravedigging" by Sarah Goldman
January 01, 2019 19:57 - 40 minutes - 30.3 MBGRAVEDIGGING by Sarah Goldman When I woke up, I noticed first that Clarissa was there, because she was always the first thing I noticed. I noticed three things immediately after that: it was dark, I could feel dirt under my fingers, and my mouth tasted disgusting, like charcoal and rubbing alcohol and cotton. "What the fuck?" is what I tried to say, except I don't think the words came out quite right. I started coughing and I couldn't stop. "Just give it a second," Clarissa said, rub...
Episode #62: "Stories My Body Can Tell" by Alina Sichevaya
November 26, 2018 19:09 - 24 minutes - 17.5 MBStories My Body Can Tell by Alina Sichevaya My mama used to tell me I was born screaming, sticky, and uglier than every sin she’d ever known, which was all of them. I still like to remember that. Gives me a warm feeling in my stomach. Especially when it looks like I’m about to die the same way. I’m remembering it now. My throat feels skinned, but on the inside, and my lips stick to each other, the blood from my nose drying over them. It’s definitely broken, and one of my lips might be ...
GlitterShip Episode #61: "To Touch the Sun Before it Fades" by Aimee Ogden
November 13, 2018 22:01 - 19 minutes - 15 MBTo Touch the Sun Before it Fades by Aimee Ogden Mariam watches a week of night roll toward her. On Pluto, the Sun is only a spectacularly bright star. It’s easy to pick out, hanging low in the sky—only just visible in the domed window in the hub of Sagacity Station. If Mariam could reach up and hold back the Sun, if she could slow its progress down the sky, she would. She can’t, of course. Just another bead to add to the strand of impossibilities hung around her neck. A scuff on the floo...
Episode #60: "Unstrap Your Feet" by Emma Osborne
November 09, 2018 22:54 - 21 minutes - 16.3 MBUnstrap Your Feet by Emma Osborne The mud on your legs covers you from knees to toes so I can’t quite tell where the soft leather of your boots meets your flesh until blood blooms from your ankles. I offer you wine. You take a long sip and hand me back the glass as you unstrap your feet. Your hooves shine as you toss your humanity into a pile by the door. You sniff the air. You take in the saffron, the lemon, the scorch of sage. “Darling,” you say. “I thought I told you I was sick...
Episode #59: "Never Alone, Never Unarmed" by Bobby Sun
October 30, 2018 15:02 - 32 minutes - 26.4 MBNever Alone, Never Unarmed by Bobby Sun The fighting spider sat heavily in Kian Boon’s left palm, where he’d knocked it from its leafy abode. It was maybe a centimeter and a half from the tip of its pedipalps to the silky spinnerets of its abdomen, black and silver like one of the sleek Chinese centipedals that increasingly frequented the roads below his building. He could feel the weight of the thing as he cupped his hand around it and it jumped, smacking against the roof of his finger...
Episode #58: "The City of Kites and Crows" by Megan Arkenberg
September 03, 2018 23:46 - 26 minutes - 19.5 MBIn the City of Kites and Crows By Megan Arkenberg 1. When you breathe deeply, really push the air from your lungs and let the cold valley wind fill you again, you can smell the city’s ghosts. They smell like burning. Not like fire but like everything that comes with it: smoke, scorched hair, wet carbon, ash. This is a city that burns spasmodically, a city of gas lines and rail cars, coal dust and arson, a city with wooden roofs and narrow alleys. A city that is always shivering. Forty...
Episode #57: "You Inside Me" by Tori Curtis
July 04, 2018 15:20 - 41 minutes - 44.5 MBYou Inside Me by Tori Curtis It'll be fun, he'd said. Everyone's doing it. You don't have to be looking for romance, it's just a good way to meet people. "I don't think it's about romance at all," Sabella said. She wove her flower crown into her braids so that the wire skeleton was hidden beneath strands of hair. "I think if you caught a congressman doing this, he'd have to resign." "That's 'cause we've never had a vampire congressman," Dedrick said. He rearranged her so that her shou...
Episode #56: Njàbò by Claude Lalumière
June 06, 2018 19:38 - 39 minutes - 34.3 MBNjàbò by Claude Lalumière Njàbò, my only child, my daughter, walks with me. She is as old as the forest, while I was born but three and a half decades ago. Our ears prick up at the sound of drums. We scan the sky and spot a column of smoke to the northwest. We run toward it. The ground trembles under our feet. The settlement is ringed by rotting carcasses. Their faces are mutilated, but the meat is left uneaten. These are the bodies of our people. I weep, but Njàbò is past tears. She ...
Episode #55: "The Huntsman's Sequence" by Octavia Cade
May 12, 2018 19:38 - 26 minutes - 29.7 MBEpisode 55 is part of the Autumn 2017/Winter 2018 issue! "The Huntsman's Sequence" is a GlitterShip original. Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ The Huntsman's Sequence by Octavia Cade 01011011101111.... m-configuration: Knife The war is blank. Not in its individual parts, but as a whole. It covers everything, smothers everything. It blows continents open with opportunity. Much of that opportunity is for death, for carcasses ...
Episode #54: "Oh, Give Me A Home" by Nicole Kimberling
April 14, 2018 17:29 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBEpisode 54 is part of the Autumn 2017/Winter 2018 issue! (Yes! It's actually out now!) Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ Oh, Give Me A Home By Nicole Kimberling Up along the edge of the ridge, Gordon could see them gathering. The mass of bugs formed a ragged silhouette against the hazy lavender sky. Each critter stood only ankle-high—about as big as a yappy dog—six-legged, like ants, with azure exoskeletons hard as crash helmets. I...
Episode #53: The Questing Beast by Amy Griswold
March 29, 2018 13:27 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode #53 for March 29, 2018. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing these stories with you. Today we have three GlitterShip originals for you: a poem, a piece of flash fiction, and a short story for you. The poem is "Cucumber" by Penny Stirling. Penny Stirling edits and embroiders in Western Australia. Their speculative fiction and poetry can be found in Lackington's, Interfictions, Strange Horizons, Heiresses of Russ, Transce...
Episode #52: Three Short Reprints
March 10, 2018 02:53 - 29 minutes - 33.1 MBDo-Overs by Jennifer Lee Rossman I have ridden dinosaurs. Big, bitey ones. I've traveled on the Hindenburg, fought alongside Joan of Arc, punched Jack the Ripper right in the face. The point I'm trying to make is being a time traveler puts you in some scary situations, but this is easily the most terrifying. Asking out a pretty girl. (Insert shriek of terror here.) I've been putting it off, shoving it to that dusty place in the back of my mind where I keep things I'm afraid of—li...
Episode #51: "Graveyard Girls on Paper Phoenix Wings" by Andrea Tang
March 05, 2018 20:58 - 51 minutes - 61.2 MBGraveyard Girls on Paper Phoenix Wings by Andrea Tang The flyboy crash-landed into Magdalisa’s life on a Wednesday, just before mid-afternoon prayers. More specifically, he crash-landed into the spindly stone watchtower over Dalaga Cemetery, and really, that amounted to the same thing. Magdalisa, for her part, probably wouldn’t have noticed if the flyboy’s spectacular nose-dive hadn’t so thoroughly disturbed the ghosts. Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip Episode 51 for March 3, 20...
Episode #50: "Smooth Stones and Empty Bones" by Bennett North
February 25, 2018 01:30 - 31 minutes - 35.1 MBSmooth Stones and Empty Bones by Bennett North There’s a skeleton in the chicken coop. It’s some bare collection of abandoned bones, maybe a former fox, and it’s slishing through the pine needles and bumping liplessly against the gate. The chickens, for their part, don’t look concerned. Mom is still in the house, folding laundry. I take a watering can from where it’s sitting next to the potted mums and haul it out to the coop. When I dump it on the skeleton, it shivers like a wet...
Episode #49: "Granny Death and the Drag King of London" by A.J. Fitzwater
February 13, 2018 22:06 - 42 minutes - 41 MBEpisode 49 is part of the Autumn 2017 / Winter 2018 double issue! "Granny Death and the Drag King of London" is a GLITTERSHIP ORIGINAL. Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ Granny Death and the Drag King of London By A.J. Fitzwater Monday, November 25, 1991. Lacey James had been working for Redpath Catering for three months when Freddie Mercury died. "Fuck," she mouthed around her fist and bit harder into her numb flesh. The ne...
Episode #48: "Circus Boy Without A Safety Net" by Craig Laurance Gidney
October 10, 2017 13:14 - 27 minutes - 30.3 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip Episode 48 for September 26, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. Our story for today is a reprint of "Circus Boy Without A Safety Net" by Craig Laurance Gidney. Potential background dog noises are unintended, but provided by Rey, Finn, and Heidi. Content warning for slurs, homophobic bullying, and descriptions of porn. Craig Laurance Gidney is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other St...
Episode #47: "The Last Spell of the Raven" by Morris Tanafon
October 05, 2017 16:41 - 32 minutes - 36 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 47 for September 23, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to share this story with you. Today we have a poem by Jes Rausch, "Defining the Shapes of our Selves," and a GlitterShip original, "The Last Spell of the Raven" by Morris Tanafon. This is the last original story from GlitterShip Summer 2017, which you can pick up at glittership.com/buy if you would like to have your own copy. More importantly, however, this means that the Autum...
Episode #46 -- "Nostalgia" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
September 29, 2017 17:38 - 35 minutes - 39.6 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 46 for September 21, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. Our story for today is a reprint by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, "Nostalgia." Content warning for the good, the bad, and the ugly: sex, drug addiction, and references to stalking. Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's fiction and poetry has appeared in over 40 magazines such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She has been a finalist for t...
Episode #45: "The Pond" by Amy Ogden
September 24, 2017 18:33 - 20 minutes - 21.3 MBHello! This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. Today we have another GlitterShip original and a poem. Our poem today is "A Seduction by a Sister of the Oneiroi" by Hester J. Rook, and our original story is "The Pond" by Aimee Ogden. If you enjoy this story and would like to read ahead in the Summer 2017 issue, you can pick that up at glittership.com/buy for $2.99 and get your very own copies of the winter and spring 2017 issues as well. Finally, t...
Episode #44: "The Need for Overwhelming Sensation" by Bogi Takács
September 05, 2017 15:08 - 36 minutes - 37 MBThe Need for Overwhelming Sensation by Bogi Takács I am staring at the face from a thousand newscasts—the gentle curve of jaw, the almost apologetic smile. Miran Anyuwe is not explaining policy. Miran Anyuwe is bleeding from a head wound, drops falling tap-tap-tap on the boarding ramp of our ship, the sound oddly amplified by the geometry of the cramped docking bay bulkheads. “I’m looking for a ride out,” they say. They are not supposed to be on Idhir Station. They are supposed to be t...
Episode 43: "In Search of Stars" by Matthew Bright
August 21, 2017 14:32 - 40 minutes - 43 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 43 for August 20, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. It's a little bit late (oops!) but we finally have the Summer 2017 issue of GlitterShip available for you to read and enjoy! As before, all of the stories will be podcast and posted on the website over the next couple of months. However, if you'd like to get a head start reading the stories and support GlitterShip, you can purchase copies of the Su...
Episode #42: "The Passing Bell" by Amy Griswold
July 12, 2017 00:05 - 22 minutes - 22.4 MBEpisode 42 is part of the Spring 2017 issue! Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ The Passing Bell by Amy Griswold My hired horse threw a shoe between Bristol and Bath, and by the time the wearying business of getting another nailed on was complete the shadows were growing long and the wind was sharpening its knives. “It’s kind of you to put me up,” I said, jingling pennies in my pocket to encourage such generosity. In a town so small...
Episode #41: "A Spell to Signal Home" by A.C. Buchanan
July 11, 2017 14:31 - 28 minutes - 29.3 MBEpisode 41 is part of the Spring 2017 issue! Read ahead by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ A Spell to Signal Home by A.C. Buchanan “Ash.” The voice is at once close beside me and yet muted, as if the sound is being filtered through a dream or a long stretch of time, a universe drawn out like an endless vibration of music. I can taste the sweetness of blood in my mouth, but no syllables emerge and my body feels heavy and soft. “Ash.” Beyond the vo...
Episode #40: Fiction by Nicky Drayden and Pear Nuallak
July 11, 2017 00:56 - 33 minutes - 32.8 MBEpisode 38 is part of the Spring 2017 issue! Read ahead by picking up your copy here: http://www.glittership.com/buy/ She Shines Like a Moon by Pear Nuallak It's cold in London but you glow with warmth. You travel limbless and limned from your core, throat crossed with black silk just as it was in your first days. Yes, you were naked then, washed clean in monsoons, dried by storm winds. When was the last time your sly hunt was wreathed in rice flowers? Do you recall how dtaan...
Episode #39: "Mercy" by Susan Jane Bigelow
May 27, 2017 23:14 - 27 minutes - 27.7 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 39. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. GlitterShip is still running a little bit behind, but we're almost caught up ... just in time for me to run off to Ohio for a week and a half to get surgery. Those who know me won't be surprised to hear this, but essentially after years of waiting, more crowdfunding (since insurance wouldn't deign to cover gender affirming surgery despite NY state laws, ugh), and more...
Episode #38: "Lessons From a Clockwork Queen" by Megan Arkenberg
May 08, 2017 15:43 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBLessons From A Clockwork Queen by Megan Arkenberg I. It was Bethany's job to wind the queen. Every morning she woke in the blue-pink dawn before the birds sang, slipped out from under her quilt and took down the great silver winding key that hung over her bed. Then she wrapped herself in her dressing gown and padded up the long, cold tower stair to the room where the queen was kept. She pulled back the sheets and found the little hole in the queen's throat where the winding key fit like a...
Episode #37: "The Little Dream" by Robin M. Eames
May 04, 2017 00:27 - 40 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Little Dream by Robin M. Eames She feels the pain before she fully wakes up, stuck in that half-space between slumber and cold daylight. For a moment she doesn't understand. Pain. A bone-deep ache—no, deeper than her bones. Soul-deep. Her eyes crack open. Fuck, it's freezing. Sylvia closes her eyes again, opens them, glares balefully at the open window. She waves a hand, hoping for a little miracle, for everything to fall into place, but the window-frame barely twitches. Might have b...
Episode #36: "How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War" by Rose Lemberg
April 13, 2017 11:28 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBHello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 36 for April 13, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story for you. Today we have a return of Rose Lemberg, whose story "Stalemate" was published in episode 7. This is the last story for the Winter 2017 issue, and Spring 2017 is right around the corner! We also have a guest reader, Rose Fox, for this episode. Rose Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Rose's work has appeared in Light...
Episode #35: "Cooking with Closed Mouths" by Kerry Truong
March 23, 2017 00:56 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBCooking with Closed Mouths by Kerry Truong A gumiho could run faster than shadows spread, but since Ha Neul doubted that Americans would take kindly to a nine-tailed fox streaking down Los Angeles’ busy streets, they opted to walk to the bus stop in the falling darkness after work. The cool night air was a relief after the hot confines of Mrs. Chang’s restaurant, where Ha Neul had spent the day carrying heavy dishes and enduring customers’ complaints. Mrs. Chang’s mediocre food attracted ...
Episode #34: "for she is the stars, and the sun revolves around her" by Agatha Tan
March 03, 2017 03:28 - 19 minutes - 21.5 MBfor she is the stars, and the sun revolves around her by Agatha Tan You watch from your corner booth as she settles down in the other corner booth, across the room. It’s not the first time you’ve seen her around here, but the girl still manages to capture your attention. She’s tall and lithe and god, but those arms (you live for the day she wears a tank top, because) and you think she’s probably a dancer or a gymnast, because she moves with a grace that proclaims she knows her body well. ...
Episode #33: Fiction by S. Qiouyi Lu and JY Yang
February 16, 2017 12:18 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBCuriosity Fruit Machine by S. Qiouyi Lu "What is it?" Alliq says. Jalzy runs eir hands over the object. It's a box of some sort, made from metal with organic paneling; a narrow lever sticks out from one side. Ey finds emself reaching out to the lever, eir fingers grasping the pockmarked knob at the end as if working from unearthed muscle memory. "I have no clue," Jalzy says. "But... I kinda wanna pull this and see what happens." CURIOSITY FRUIT MACHINE and THE SLOW ONES are both Glit...
Episode #32: "The Subtler Art" by Cat Rambo
January 24, 2017 12:01 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThe Subtler Art by Cat Rambo Anything can happen in Serendib, the city built of dimensions intersecting, and this is what happened there once. The noodle shop that lies on the border between the neighborhood of Yddle, which is really a forest, houses strapped to the wide trunks, and Eclect, an industrial quarter, is claimed by both, with equally little reason. The shop was its own Territory, with laws differing from either area, although the same can be said of many eating establishments...
Episode #31: "Parts" by Paul Lorello
January 12, 2017 03:35 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBParts by Paul Lorello I honestly don't think anyone on Earth was ever happier than Jake was when Bobo Schmuley's index finger arrived by Special Courier on Tuesday. I was the one who got stuck signing for it and paying the non-breakability reward while Jake stood right there in the sub-cooler, jumping up and down and slapping at his sides. I held the parcel out at him. He grabbed it hungrily and tore it open and he took out Bobo Schmuley's finger and held it up to the light and turned it ...
Episode #30: "City of Chimeras" by Richard Bowes
November 22, 2016 17:22 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBCity of Chimeras by Richard Bowes 1. Salome's hand is the hinge and John the Baptist's head is the hammer on the doorknocker at the Studio Caravaggio. I slam the brass head held by its brass hair on the door a few times before the spy slot on the iron door opens and closes. To mortal eyes here in the Middle World even a half-breed Fey like me can appear a bit translucent with his hands and hair trailing away like phosphorous. In my case most of that is the effect of Prince Calithurn's G...
Episode #29: Learned People by Chelsea Eckert
November 01, 2016 23:15 - 29 minutes - 29.1 MBLEARNED PEOPLE is a GLITTERSHIP ORIGINAL Learned People by Chelsea Eckert She's on her bed, on her knees, leaning against the window so that her face is pressed against it. Her fingers are interlinked across her gut, and she's dead. Absolutely. Paleness clings to her like dust on a moth's wing. For a while I lean against the wall. The paint is a lumpy, intestine pink, which is/was Tess's favorite color. Hard whimpers push their way out of me. I am, for a moment, blind and deaf. A wolf p...
Episode #28: "Sarah's Child" by Susan Jane Bigelow
May 25, 2016 02:28 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBSarah’s Child Susan Jane Bigelow Once, I dreamed that I had a son named Sheldon, and my grief tore a hole in the fabric of the world. In my dream I walked through the halls of an elementary school, and I went into the office. Everything was gray and blocky, but somehow not oppressive. I was certain, then, that it was the elementary school in my old hometown, and that I was both myself and also not myself. Full transcript after the cut ----more---- Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode...
Episode #27: "Just a Little Spice Will Do" by Andrew Wilmot
May 10, 2016 14:05 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBJust a Little Spice Will Do by Andrew Wilmot When Alex arrived home Sunday night with an overflowing grocery bag tucked under each arm, she saw her girlfriend doubled over at the waist, retching violently into the kitchen sink. “Lindy?” She dropped both bags and rushed over.Lindy gripped the edge of the counter and heaved again, spitting a viscous strand of amaranth red into the stainless steel sink; it came out of her in small globules strung together like Christmas lights. Alex put on...