Episode 90: "Stranded" by Bill Kirton
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Host: Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the University of Rhode Island, spent a few years as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow in universities in Aberdeen,...
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SFP89: "No Mercy" by Susan E. Rogers
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Host: Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, often twisting these themes into her writing. She self-published her first book in 2018 about her own psychic experiences, published an occult thriller with an indie press in Sept. 2023, and self-published a second paranormal non-fiction book in 2024. A supernatural mystery novel is under contract with another publisher for a planned release late 2024. Starting...
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SFP88: "Leave Me Alone" by Scotty Sarafian
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Host: Scotty Sarafian is a Florida-born writer who grew up in Dublin, Ireland and Wilmington, Delaware. His work has been published by Coffin Bell, Pulp Modern Flash, Ghost Orchid Press (A Very Ghostly Christmas), Neon Hemlock (Opulent Syntax: Irish Speculative Fiction), Skywatcher Press (The Depths Unleashed: Book 1), Black Hare Press, and Trembling with Fear. He was longlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Raven Short Story Contest. He lives in Dublin with his mischievous pug.
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Episode 87: "Silents" by Kristin Kirby
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Host: Kristin Kirby is a Southwest writer and screenwriter whose short stories have appeared in the anthology Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, MYTHIC magazine, The Overcast podcast, the Sudden Fictions podcast, 365tomorrows, SERIAL magazine, and other publications. I’m also honored that my short story “Meat” was on the preliminary finalist ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards. My first collection of short stories will be published by Unnerving Books in January 2025.
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Episode 86: "Silent Rooms" by Lucretia Stanhope
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Host: Lucretia Stanhope, a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband.
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Episode 85: "Waiting" by Bill Kirton
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Host: Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the University of Rhode Island, spent a few years as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow in universities in...
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Episode 84: "Silence is Golden" by Wicker Stone
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Host: Wicker Stone is an avid reader and writer of everything horror. He's been in several anthologies, magazines, and this Podcast. He's currently trying to find a home for his first novel. In the mean time, he's plugging away on two other novels and a short story collection. He lives in central Maine.
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Episode 83: "The White Silence" by EM Otero
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Host: EM Otero is a Puerto Rican author and lover of all things weird. When he isn’t writing, he is busy being a husband and father. While working outside or hiking, he loves to take pictures of plants, insects, and anything else he finds interesting or strange. He loves showing his daughter and wife the curious things in nature. His writing is inspired by our weird world, robot anime, horror stories, and science.
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Episode 82: "The Stranger" by Lori D'Angelo
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Host: Lori D'Angelo is a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and an alumna of the Community of Writers. She holds an MA from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MFA from West Virginia University. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including BULL, Gargoyle, Drunken Boat, Moon City Review, and Rejection Letters. Her first book, a collection called The Monsters Are Here, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions.
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Episode 81: "An Appointment with Madame Cauchemar" by Mia Dalia
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Host: Mia Dalia is an internationally published, CWA-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her stories have been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023 and shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and upcoming Haven, novellas Tell Me a Story, Discordant, and Arrokoth,...
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Born in 1964 in Québec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Orléans, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal. Since 1986, he has published over 50 SF & Fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 19 books in French. His first book in English, a fantasy novel titled The Book of Knights, came out in January 1998 from Tor Books. His second English-language book, Chrysanthe, came out in March 2012. A collection of short stories, Angels & Exiles, was published in 2015. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois in 1994.
Yves was fiction editor from 1994 to 2001 for the Québécois SF magazine Solaris; he has been an anthologist for several projects, including the anthology Tesseracts5, published by Tesseract Books. He is one of the founding members of SF Canada. A Macintosh enthusiast from the instant he laid eyes on the machine, he has written several applications for the Mac and is developing more.
Né en 1964 à Québec, Yves Meynard demeure à Orléans, en banlieue d'Ottawa. Il détient un doctorat en informatique de l’Université de Montréal. Depuis 1986, il a publié plus de 50 nouvelles de science-fiction et fantastique, en anglais comme en français, et 19 livres en français. Il a également à son actif deux romans en anglais, The Book of Knights et Chrysanthe.
Yves fut directeur littéraire de la revue Solaris de 1994 à 2001, et a agi comme anthologiste pour divers projets, dont Tesseracts 5 et Escales sur Solaris. Fan du Macintosh de la première heure, il a créé plusieurs applications pour le Mac et s’affaire à en développer d’autres.