FANTASY MAGAZINE - Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

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Edited by Christie Yant and Arley Sorg, FANTASY is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human. Every month FANTASY will bring you a mix of original short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. When you read FANTASY, it is our hope that you'll see where fantasy comes from, where it is now, and where it's going. The FANTASY podcast, produced by Grammy Award-winning narrator and producer Stefan Rudnicki of Skyboat Media, is presented twice a month, featuring original audio fiction.

Episodes

A.L. Goldfuss | The Woman With No Face

Ankuin knew she was in a sim by the mineral taste in her mouth. The other tells were more subtle: the fractal pattern of moss on the cave wall, the cyclical rhythm of the rain on wet fronds, and the lyrical birdsong piercing through the dense forest. Most people wouldn’t notice such details, because most people didn’t have a reason to doubt their senses. But Ankuin’s senses were never fully her own. | Copyright 2021 by Alice Goldfuss. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Apr 13, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Hal Y. Zhang | Arenous

It starts with the patch of skin behind her right ear, where her too-large turquoise glasses frame sits awkwardly, an unbalanced seesaw upon her nose. While finishing a requisition report, she scratches there unconsciously, and her nails catch on something hard and thin, coming back with a flimsy yellow patch the size of her nail, translucent and slightly elastic. | Copyright 2021 by Hal Y. Zhang Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 23, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast

M. Shaw | Man vs. Bomb

Watch. The starter pistol sounds. The man takes off running. Five seconds later, the bomb takes off after him. The man is young and strong, for a human, but his legs are short. He’s naked and doesn’t have much hair, even on top of his head. His genitals swing frantically, like a smaller, more terrified version of himself, as he runs from the bomb. | Copyright 2021 by M. Shaw. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 09, 2021•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Innocent Chizaram Ilo | Flight

Tonight, Jekwu and Izu are perched on Chapel’s fence. They love this fence. It is the only fence in Selemku that is still coated with fresh algae-spirogyra lichen, warm under their feet, like a rug. Here, the glint of the full moon on Chapel’s stained-glass windows crisscrosses their grey feathers, the same way rainbow beams stretch out across the sky in the mornings. The air from this height is cold and dry. It wriggles its way under their skin, sending spasms down their spine. From time to tim...

Feb 23, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast

David James Brock | Kisser

Bragg sleeps alone. Thirty-four. This morning, he wakes up with one less tooth in his mouth, a central incisor. What his dentist, later and while looking at a dental chart, calls the patient’s Number Nine. Bragg’s Number Nine, root to crown, a crucial corn-on-the-cob tooth, is not in his mouth. It’s on the pillow beside him. Bragg rubs sleep from his eyes. That first glimpse of the tooth sends his tongue darting to the front of his mouth. An absence. A canyon. | Copyright 2021 by David James Bro...

Feb 09, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Tonya Liburd | 10 Steps to a Whole New You

(1) Be unaware that the wolf was presenting itself to you in sheep’s clothing. It began, as most things do, simply enough. In a simple neighbourhood, on the edge of a town. Too urban to be rural, too rural to be urban. Women grew old. Some women aged with their children, grandchildren, family around them. Some grew old alone, isolated, bitter. Others might grow old and die sick, in pain. Then there was you. | Copyright 2021 by Tonya Liburd. Narrated by Tonya Liburd. Learn more about your ad choi...

Jan 19, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast

C.E. McGill | Things to Bring, Things to Burn, Things Best Left Behind

Oz is holding a knife to his wrist when they knock on the door. For a moment he hesitates, weighing his options. His eyes dart between the door and the knife—eeny, meeny, meiny, mo—and land on the door. “Might as well,” he mutters, and gets to his feet. The dull sound of the knife as he sets it aside on the kitchen table seems to fill the room. It’s a terrible thing, he muses, how loud a house is when there’s no one else in it. | Copyright 2021 by C.E. McGill. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn ...

Jan 05, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Anya Ow | Umami

“I have a favour to ask,” said the fushi to the chef, “and in exchange, I will grant you a wish.” “What sort of favour?” Yun San asked. She wiped sweating palms down her brown hanfu and tried to show a brave face. Thick mist had whisked her away from the back of her restaurant into the wilderness. Even were she thirty years younger and somehow able to outrun her captor, she had no idea where she was. | Copyright 2020 by Anya Ow. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Dec 14, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Kurt Hunt | An Indefinite Number of Birds

Stanley began watching birds on the day he panicked and asked JD how much he really loved him, and JD responded, “Oh for fuck’s sake, Stanley. How many birds are in the sky? I don’t know—a bunch!” Stanley couldn’t get the question out of his head. By week’s end, he’d bought a birdwatching guide and an embarrassingly expensive pair of Leica binoculars. He spent a tense Sunday morning ready for the birds to awaken and sing the day’s gossips and confessions, watching and ticking things off in his j...

Dec 01, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Osahon Ize-Iyamu | To Look Forward

We are the ones who dare, back and forth; our hair whipping over, our hearts full of joy. Our bodies burn bright and clean and crisp, glistening when we reach the sun. A healthy tan has coated our skin, our foreheads drip with sweat, our palms firm and slick. We are: over and over again, up in the air; not known to each other, but known to the sky. Mid-jump, mid-action, mid-reaction, mid-air; always there, on rusted swings, on creaking chains, on hot-sun days, back and forth and over, once again...

Nov 17, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Shingai Njeri Kagunda | And This is How to Stay Alive

Kabi finds my body swinging. I watch my sister press her back against the wall and slide to the ground. My mother shouts, “Kabi! Nyokabi!” No response. “Why are you not answering? Can you bring that brother of yours!” My sister is paralyzed, she cannot speak, she cannot move, except for the shivers that take hold of her spine and reverberate through the rest of her without permission. She is thinking No, no, no, no, no. But the word is not passing her lips which only open and close soundlessly. ...

Nov 01, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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Episodes

FANTASY MAGAZINE - Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

Episodes

A.L. Goldfuss | The Woman With No Face

Hal Y. Zhang | Arenous

M. Shaw | Man vs. Bomb

Innocent Chizaram Ilo | Flight

David James Brock | Kisser

Tonya Liburd | 10 Steps to a Whole New You

C.E. McGill | Things to Bring, Things to Burn, Things Best Left Behind

Anya Ow | Umami

Kurt Hunt | An Indefinite Number of Birds

Osahon Ize-Iyamu | To Look Forward

Shingai Njeri Kagunda | And This is How to Stay Alive

Darcie Little Badger | Black, Their Regalia

P. Djéli Clark | The Things My Mother Left Me

Shweta Narayan | The Padishah Begum’s Reflections

Catherynne M. Valente | The Lily and the Horn

Nalo Hopkinson | The Glass Bottle Trick

Delia Sherman | Miss Carstairs and the Merman

Joe R. Lansdale | Torn Away

Nike Sulway | Her Lover’s Golden Hair

Lavie Tidhar | Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western

K.M. Ferebee | Seven Spells to Sever the Heart

Charles de Lint | The Invisibles

Tim Pratt | The Secret Beach

Jonathan Lethem | Using It and Losing It

Megan Arkenberg | Lessons from a Clockwork Queen

Laura Anne Gilman | Crossroads

Cory Skerry | The World Is Cruel, My Daughter

Catherynne M. Valente | The Wolves of Brooklyn

M. Rickert | The Machine

Jeremiah Tolbert | You Have Been Turned into a Zombie by a Friend