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 #26: Three Flash stories by Kat Howard, Nino Cipri, and Bogi Takács
April 22, 2016 10:52 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBThe Face of Heaven So Fine Kat Howard There is an entire history in the stars. Light takes time to travel, to get from wherever the star is to wherever we can see it, here, on Earth. So when you think about it, when we see the stars, we are looking back in time. Everything those stars actually shone on has already happened. But just because a story already happened, that doesn’t mean it’s finished. Full transcript after the cut. ----more---- Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 26 for...
Episode #25: "Straw and Gold" by Kate O'Connor
April 05, 2016 11:26 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBStraw and Gold By Kate O’Connor Orin did not know the feel of gold. There was none to be found in his father’s mill. There were coins of tangy, sharp copper and rough iron fittings on the door, slick steel for the horses’ tack and clattering tin plates for the table. His sister had a silver ring that had belonged to their mother. It was smooth and cool as a night breeze on Jessa’s delicate finger when she held his hand, warm against his skin where it now sat. But none of those things were...
Episode #24: "Lamia Victoriana" by Tansy Rayner Roberts
March 15, 2016 14:50 - 25 minutes - 23 MBLamia Victoriana by Tansy Rayner Roberts The poet’s sister has teeth as white as new lace. When she speaks, which is rarely, I feel a shiver down my skin. I am not here for this. I am here to persuade my own sister, Mary, that she has made a terrible mistake, that eloping as she has with this poet who cannot marry her, will not only be her own ruin, but that of our family. My tongue stumbles on the words, and every indignant speech I practiced on my way here has melted to nothing. The p...
Episode 23: "Je me souviens" by Su J. Sokol
March 01, 2016 02:43 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBJe me souviens by Su J. Sokol There are nine police cars. I count them again just to be sure and because counting usually calms me. Arielle watches to see if I’m freaking out, asks if I want to leave. I tell her I’m OK but she's not reassured so I give her a sexy smile. If she would kiss me now, I’d have somewhere pleasant to channel my beating heart. She leans towards me and I see that she’s used her superpowers to read my mind again, but then another police car arrives, drawing her att...
Episode #22: "Into the Nth Dimension" by David D. Levine
February 20, 2016 17:59 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBInto the Nth Dimension by David D. Levine The fence around Dr. Diabolus's lair is twenty feet tall, electrified and topped with razor wire. I'd expected no less. From one of the many pouches at my belt I pull a pair of acorns and toss them at the base of the fence. I exert my special power. Each acorn immediately sprouts, roots digging through asphalt as the leafy stem reaches skyward. Wood fibers KRACKLE as the stems extend, lengthen, thicken, green skin changing to grayish bark in ...
Episode 21: "Her Last Breath Before Waking" by A.C. Wise
February 02, 2016 12:50 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHer Last Breath Before Waking by A.C. Wise She is a city haunted by a ghost. When the architect dreams, her sinews are suspension bridges, her ribs vaulting arches, her bones steel I-beams, and her blood concrete. In her dreams, the city is pristine and perfect. She is perfect. The architect has a lover who is afraid to sleep. At night, the lover lays her head against the architect’s chest. Instead of breath and pulse, she hears the rumble of high-speed trains. Full transcript after the ...
Episode #20: "Skeletons" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
January 19, 2016 14:06 - 19 minutes - 18 MBSkeletons by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam “Who’s gonna watch the skeletons?” I ask. We’re about to go camping. Cathryn’s undressing before the closet in her garage apartment. I’m trying not to watch, though she wants me to. Instead I peer into her glass terrarium where the skeletons live, three of them: a dwarf T-Rex and two dwarf stegosauruses. The T-Rex stands atop a lonely pile of rocks. “I was going to leave them extra food. You think that’s okay?” Cathryn rummag...
Episode #19: "And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the Score" by Gary Kloster
January 05, 2016 03:09 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBAnd the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the Score By Gary Kloster I had a frat-boy stretched out on the table, a pink slab of drunken meat just itching for ink, when Huck blew back into my life and brought the blood trade with him. "Dead gods, Woody, this is the shit-hole you crawled into?" The shop was damn small, Huck was damn big, and the perfectly tailored black ass of his suit pants leaned against my desk before I'd even raised the humming needle from frat-boy's hide. "I'm busy, Huck....
Episode #18: "Eureka!" by Nick Mamatas
October 14, 2015 01:16 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBEureka! By Nick Mamatas Adam hadn't worn the crushed velvet blouse in his hands for a long time. It was from his goth phase, twenty pounds and twenty years prior. He shuddered at the thought of it distending around his spare tire these days, but he couldn't bring himself to put it in the box he'd set aside for Out of the Closet either. And not only because it would be embarrassing if anyone saw it. There were memories in the wrinkles of the velvet—well, not memories exactly. Half-memories...
Episode #17: "Minghun: Unlikely Patron Saints No. 5" by Amy Sisson
October 07, 2015 15:21 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBMinghun: Unlikely Patron Saints, No. 5 by Amy Sisson A whisper of excitement echoes through the cave, or what I think of as a cave. She is coming, the minghun broker is coming, I hear or perhaps feel, like soft butterfly wings brushing my face. I strain to catch a glimpse of one of the others I know to be around me, but it is difficult to see faces. A flash of sleeve, whether plain or fancy, or a pale hand laid briefly on my arm is more likely. When she arrives, the minghun broker is far...
Episode #16: "They Jump Through Fires" by Gabriela Santiago
September 22, 2015 15:07 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThey Jump Through Fires By Gabriela Santiago “They jump through fires, you know.” We were behind a glass window and at least ten feet off the ground, but Sam’s voice startled the rabbit that had been standing frozen on the asphalt, one large brown eye twitching as it stared up at me. Its ears jerked up and it twisted away, hopping into the underbrush. I kept looking out the window. “They what?” “Jump through fires. Instead of running away.” “Did you read that on Wikipedia?” She chang...
Episode #15: "Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon" by Ken Liu
September 15, 2015 23:33 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBSeventh Day of the Seventh Moon By Ken Liu “Tell me a story,” said Se. She had changed into her pajamas all by herself and snuggled under the blankets. Se’s big sister, Yuan, was just about to flip the switch next to the bedroom door. “How about you read a story by yourself? I have to … go see a friend.” “No, it’s not the same.” Se shook her head vigorously. “You have to tell me a story or I can’t sleep.” Yuan glanced at her phone. Every minute tonight was precious. Dad was out of town ...
Episode #14: "All That Fairy Tale Crap" by Rachel Swirsky
September 08, 2015 22:26 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBAll That Fairy Tale Crap by Rachel Swirsky I was supposed to go to the ball, but I spent the night licking out my stepsister instead. Bethesda moaned and rustled mulberry silk high up her thighs. “There, there, no, faster, come on, faster, please…” The friendly mice put out their eyes and ran out in trios to join a different fairy tale. Never marry a prince when you can eat a pussy. Never ride a pumpkin when you can steal cab fare. Never wear a ball gown when you can slink in snakeski...
Episode #13: "Sugar" by Cat Rambo
September 01, 2015 13:31 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBSugar by Cat Rambo They line up before Laurana, forty baked-clay heads atop forty bodies built of metal cylinders. Every year she casts and fires new heads to replace those lost to weather, the wild, or simple erosion. She rarely replaces the metal bodies. They are scuffed and battered, over a century old. Every morning, the island sun beating down on her pale scalp, she stands on the maison's porch with the golems before her. Motionless. Expressionless. She chants. The music and t...
Episode #12: "Swan-Brother" by Gabriel Murray
July 10, 2015 18:04 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBSwan-Brother by Gabriel Murray The—woman—took snuff. "Good morning, Captain," she said, Capitaine in her accent. "This is a colder day than I imagined." She looked out over the swells, her mannish periwig bobbing as she tilted her head up to regard the horizon. "Do you know, I hardly expected to see it." Gregory Everett clasped his hands behind his back. "Your Captain did the correct thing," he said. He had. Galatea's American captain had struck colours almost as soon as the Indef...
Episode #11: "Bonzaiships of Venus" by Kate Heartfield
July 02, 2015 19:02 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBBonzaiships of Venus by Kate Heartfield The work of aesthetics is the aesthetics of work. —Principles of Graphene Cultivation, by Johanne St-Pierre, Vol. II Makoto adjusted the angle of his scalpel’s electron beam, exhaled and made the cut. A fingernail-sized section of the airship’s graphene skin peeled away to join the miniature airship attached to its exterior like a soap bubble. This was neither Makoto’s only bonsaiship nor his first. But it was and would always be the most pr...
Episode #10: "King Tide" by Alison Wilgus
June 11, 2015 05:22 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBKing Tide by Alison Wilgus Some particular trick of the moon, the weather, and the Earth's closeness to the sun had pulled the tide all the way to 5th Avenue, a good half-block further uphill than usual. The city had put out an alert, so Jordyn knew to clear out the basement ahead of time. Their landlord was smart enough to have the foundation sealed years ago—that would be fine—but there wasn't much to be done for cardboard boxes and old futons. Those had to be kept above the tide line, o...
Episode #9: "Sooner than Gold" by Cory Skerry
June 09, 2015 04:02 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBSooner Than Gold By Cory Skerry I tug on clean underwear in case I get arrested, paint my makeup perfectly because there's nothing sadder than a grown man in badly applied eyeliner, and climb out my apartment window, onto the fire escape. I can't be late to this assignment, and if I go through the lobby, there's a strong chance the night doorman will have a thing or two to say about the video footage of our card game last night. I forgot there was a camera pointed at the lobby desk. The a...
Episode #8: "Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass" by Penny Stirling
May 28, 2015 15:04 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBLove Over Glass, Skin Under Glass by Penny Stirling The seasick lover becomes a saltwater cistern She built her first lover out of glass. "I was often disappointed," she said as she showed her creation around her gallery, "that the things I make with such skill cannot admire my handiwork. Now at last I have made something that can look on itself with wonder." But, she had to admit, she liked it even better when the lover looked upon her with wonder. Her lover's skin was glass, her lov...
Episode #7: "Stalemate" by Rose Lemberg
May 21, 2015 19:34 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBStalemate by Rose Lemberg He wakes to warmth. The floor beneath his head. He stares at the spider-patterns etched into the ceiling, tiny and dense, gray against darker gray. No power runs through them. Inert now. Unneeded. He wants to make the patterns work again. —how could anyone survive a descent through Calamity storms? Above him, someone’s shiny dark shirt smells of static, a faraway storm passing. How are they still alive? Alive, forever, trapped inside this loneliness. A ful...
Episode #6: "And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness" by Lisa Nohealani Morton
May 16, 2015 04:38 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBAND OUT OF THE STRONG CAME FORTH SWEETNESS by Lisa Nohealani Morton After the Collapse and the Great Reboot, Lila moved into the city and opened a barbershop. Great things were happening in the city: spaceports and condominiums and public works projects outlined their soon-to-be-erected monuments to great men and women and superior city living in holographic glows. Angels patrolled the sky, resplendent with metal wings that sparkled in the sun when they banked for a turn. Everyone seemed ...
Episode #5: "The End of the World in Five Dates" by Claire Humphrey
May 08, 2015 17:03 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBTHE END OF THE WORLD IN FIVE DATES by Claire Humphrey I: May 21, 2011 (according to Harold Camping) Robin called it an apartment, but it was really part of an old carpet factory in the Junction: an echoing space where one of the looms used to be, furnished with a broken church pew, two wheelchairs, and the bench seat from a minivan. The smells of paint and dust were good, banishing the phantom smells of antiseptic and latex gloves from my nose. I leaned in the doorway of the breakroom a...
Episode #4: "Ordinary Souls" by K. M. Szpara
April 24, 2015 04:50 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBORDINARY SOULS by K. M. Szpara “This is a bad idea, Callum.” The sorceress rolled a colorful concoction of dried plants in a thin piece of cigarette paper and balanced it between her lips. “You know that, right?” The end smoldered on its own. “Probably.” If Ethan didn’t know, would he forgive me? I picked at a chunk of yellow foam exploding from my chair’s upholstery. She wouldn’t notice. Her whole apartment was crumbling slowly around her altar—chipped paint, smoke glazed walls, mysteri...
Episode #3: "This Shall Serve As a Demarcation" by Bogi Takács
April 17, 2015 05:41 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBTHIS SHALL SERVE AS A DEMARCATION by Bogi Takács I. Tiles flip over, land to sea to land. Enhyoron grimaces, rocks back in their chair, eyes still fixed on the ever-changing map. I can feel their moods on my skin and my skin burns, flares with frustration, chafes against my simple cotton garb. I sit up on the futon and pull up one sleeve to examine my arm—lighter-toned in branching lines like the bare, defoliated frames of trees in winter. I used to be cut along those pathways, gleaming...
Episode #2: Three Flash Stories by Sonya Taaffe, Vajra Chandrasekera, and Sarah Pinsker
April 12, 2015 20:08 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBTHE TRUE ALCHEMIST by Sonya Taaffe for Mat Joiner Whatever they left in the garden, Seth, I don’t think it wants to stay there. The man and the woman who came about the gas meter yesterday, or maybe it was the water bill? I had a deadline, I barely noticed them except for the noises they made, the crunch of shoes on stiff grass, scrapes and clangs as if they were wrestling the dustbins back against the garage door, a sudden snap of bracken that startled me until I remembered the rose-can...
Episode #1: "How to Become A Robot in 12 Easy Steps" by A. Merc Rustad
April 02, 2015 11:24 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBHOW TO BECOME A ROBOT IN 12 EASY STEPS by A. Merc Rustad How to tell your boyfriend you are in love with a robot: Tell him, “I may possibly be in love with a robot,” because absolutes are difficult for biological brains to process. He won’t be jealous. Ask him what he thinks of a hypothetical situation in which you found someone who might not be human, but is still valuable and right for you. (Your so-called romantic relationship is as fake as you are.) Don’t tell him anything. It’s not...