Far Fetched Fables

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Explore fantastical lands with Far-Fetched Fables! Do you sometimes wonder how things could be different, should be different? Do you feel the call of the bizarre and surreal? Each week, Nicola Seaton-Clark explores a little further into the rare and mysterious lands which lie just outside our familiar reality, forging paths of wonder, magic and delight!

Podcasting the finest in genre fiction, Far-Fetched Fables puts the “wonders” in the District of Wonders podcast network. Like all shows in the District of Wonders, Far-Fetched Fables is supported by a welcoming community of dedicated fans and contributors. Subscribe today, and begin your fantastical journey through worlds of dream and imagination.

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Far Fetched Fables No 9 Jeffrey Ford, Tony Ballantyne, and Laurel Winter

First Story: “A Night in the Tropics” by Jeffrey Ford The first bar I ever went to was The Tropics. It was and still is situated between the grocery store and the bank along Higbee Lane in West Islip. I was around five or six, and my old man would take me with him when he went there to watch the Giant games on Sunday afternoon. While the men were all at the bar, drinking, talking, giving Y.A. Tittle a piece of their minds, I’d roll the balls on the pool table or sit in one of the booths in the b...

Jun 17, 2014•1 hr 22 min

Far Fetched Fables No 8 Trent Jamieson and Mike Resnick and Lawrence Schimel

First Story: “The New Deal” by Trent Jamieson “You hear about the new Deal?” Jacobi asked, crouching down by the nearest body on the flat corrugated iron roof. Ulmer shrugged. “Just rumours, nothing definite. Last one wasn’t so good. These two aren’t going to benefit.” He took a step back from the bodies, careful to stay on the line of nails marking the beam beneath, the roof was rusty; it creaked with his movement. Jacobi grinned and brushed flies from his cracked lips. “These blokes been dead ...

Jun 10, 2014•1 hr 2 min

Far Fetched Fables No 7 Stephen Dedman and Deborah J. Ross

First Story: “Lost Arts” by Stephen Dedman Tao’s was the only office on Hathor. It was a conventional flexiroom bisected by a temporary wall; the smaller chamber served as an ante-room, mainly in case the mayor was asleep when unexpected visitors arrived. Many of her neighbors had chambers that were similar, but they called them studios or studies or libraries or galleries. Being mayor of Hathor wasn’t normally a demanding job, as the more routine details were handled by her Turing-tested secret...

Jun 03, 2014•1 hr 36 min

Far Fetched Fables No 6 Sean McMullen and Matthew Burnside

First Story: “A Ring of Green Fire” by Sean McMullen “As I was travelling through Westbury forest, I met with a man with a ring of green fire around his penis,” Avenzoar’s visitor said casually. The poet-physician looked up at his friend and stroked his beard, then gazed wistfully across to the partially built minaret of Caliph al-Mansur’s huge mosque. “Such a wonder,” sighed Avenzoar, then turned to his visitor and raised an eyebrow. “I suppose you did not bring him here for this poor physician...

May 27, 2014•1 hr 13 min

Far Fetched Fables No 5 Brian Evenson and Charles Stross

WARNING: This week’s story, “Snowball’s Chance”, contains graphic language and a strong Scottish accent. First Story: “An Accounting” by Brian Evenson I have been ordered to write an honest accounting of how I became a Midwestern Jesus and the subsequent disastrous events thereby accruing, events for which I am, I am willing to admit, at least partly to blame. I know of no simpler way than to simply begin. Brian Evenson is the author of twelve books of fiction, most recently the novel Immobility...

May 20, 2014•57 min

Far Fetched Fables No 4 Zoran Zivkovic and Kelley Armstrong

First Story: “The Teashop” by Zoran Zivkovic Miss Greta was delighted to see a teashop across the street from the entrance to the railway station. The train she’d arrived on had been a quarter of an hour late, but the train she was meant to take for the rest of her trip had left on time. The next possible train wouldn’t leave for around two-and-a-half hours. She could have spent that time reading in the waiting room, but that didn’t seem very appealing. Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, forme...

May 13, 2014•1 hr 12 min

Far Fetched Fables No 3 Sherwood Smith and Michael Cadnum

First Story: “Commando Bats” by Sherwood Smith When I was young, aging women were interchangeable. Ugly, slow, annoying with their unwanted opinions. It seemed impossible that I’d ever be one. The first proof that the universe has a sense of humor? I’m half of one. Sherwood Smith began writing novels about another world when she was eight, and began sending laboriously typed novels out to publishers when she was thirteen. When nothing had sold by the time she was twenty, she figured she needed t...

May 06, 2014•1 hr 18 min

Far Fetched Fables No 2 A. A. Attanasio and Seana Graham

First Story: “Demons Hide Their Faces” by A.A. Attanasio Winterset in Egypt beside the rotting canal at Sidi Bishr, with the little, ceramic hashish pipe in her freckled hand, a thin thread of palpitant smoke twisting in the air before her, the professor faced her student and informed him seriously and with hollow impersonality, “The most avid collectors of books are demons. But they want only the old texts. The oldest texts.” The author of twenty-two novels and two story collections, A. A. Atta...

Apr 29, 2014•59 min

Far Fetched Fables No 1 Jedediah Berry and Fritz Swanson

First Story: “To Measure the Earth” by Jedediah Berry Spring 1890 Roel got out of bed before the fireflies had quit their nighttime signaling. He took his hat from the bedpost, strapped on his wooden right leg, and went downstairs to stoke the fire. Netta had never been able to sleep through the thudding of her husband’s leg on the steps, and the steps creaked, each one. She threw the covers aside and went to the kitchen to make their breakfast of blood sausage and buckwheat cake. Jedediah Berry...

Apr 22, 2014•53 min

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