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I've been narrating stories for awhile now and I love it. Fills the theatre void. (Well, except my microphone doesn't applaud and throw carnations, alas.)

Looking for a place to start? Although I enjoy all the stories I've read (I wouldn't record them else), some of my favorites where I think the story and I really hit it off are The Mermaids' Tea Party by Samantha Henderson (NOT for the faint of heart, but I love it), The Small Door, by Holly Phillips, Boyfriend by Madeleine Ashby, or The Rugged Track, by Liz Argall. I've also received good feedback about The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling, by Elizabeth Carroll.

Pressed for time and want to hear something short? Check out a couple of my favorite flash fiction readings: Mother Ship by Caroline M. Yoachim, or The Tides by Ken Liu.

Toasted Cake

I have a flash fiction podcast! It's called Toasted Cake, and it won the 2012 Parsec award for Best New Podcaster! Check out Toasted Cake for stories by Camille Alexa, C. S. E. Cooney, Vylar Kaftan, David D. Levine, Samantha Henderson, Claude Lalumiere, Ken Liu, Cat Rambo, Rachel Swirsky, Caroline M. Yoachim, and many many more.



Stories I've Read

Liz Argall, The Rugged Track, Podcastle

Madeline Ashby, Boyfriend, Escape Pod

James Breyfogle, The Cruel Sister, Cast of Wonders

Elizabeth Carroll, The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling, Podcastle

Michael J. DeLuca, The Prophet's Daughters, Pseudopod

Eugie Foster, The Tanuki-Kettle, Podcastle

Samantha Henderson, The Mermaids' Tea Party, Podcastle

Karen Heuler, The Difficulties of Evolution, Drabblecast

Jim C. Hines, Spell of the Sparrow, Podcastle

Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Test Drive, Drabblecast

Alaya Dawn Johnson, Their Changing Bodies, Podcastle

Ann Leckie, Bury the Dead, Podcastle

Marissa K. Lingen, Cursed Motives, Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Marissa K. Lingen, On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant), Podcastle

Sandra M. Odell, On Being Mandy, Pseudopod

Holly Phillips, The Small Door, Podcastle

Tim Pratt, Gulls, Pseudopod

Genevieve Valentine, Bespoke, Podcastle

Wendy N. Wagner, The Last Doll War, Three-Lobed Burning Eye



Podcasts of My Work

Flash Bang Remember (written with Caroline M. Yoachim) coming soon at Starship Sofa.

One Ear Back at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A retelling of an Icelandic fairy tale, read by me!

A special Drabblecast doubleheader featuring me! Norm Sherman reads my weird flash pieces A Day Out, With Stereoscopes and Hard Choices. I read my poem And My Sinuses Are Killing Me, and I talk a bit about writing the two flash stories. It's alien encounters like you've never heard them before.

On the Eyeball Floor on Escape Pod. Cyborg Factory SF, read by Norm Sherman.

Turning the Apples in Pseudopod. Dark Zombie SF, read by Cayenne Chris Conroy.

The God-Death of Halla, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. High fantasy, read by Scott H. Andrews. And! In Podcastle, read by Jen Rhodes.

Birthday Wish on Podcastle. A funny little flash read by Grammar Girl.

The Goats are Going Places on Podcastle. Snarky high school fantasy, read by Melissa Bugaji.



Special Bonus Listens

My story "Ten" was a special bonus story for Escape Artists forum members, read by me. Dunno if it's still available to hear. I might run it on Toasted Cake sometime. I did run it on Toasted Cake! You can hear it here.

I read one line for a cast-style production of Sarging Rasmussen by Gord Sellar, on Starship Sofa.

I'm part of the 100th episode multi-reader podcast on BCS - hear me read a character from "Boat in Shadows, Crossing" by Tori Truslow, along with Folly Blaine, Rajan Khanna, and Michael J DeLuca.