PodCastle Episode 288: Flash Fiction Contest Strikes Back!
Originally posted at PodCastle.org
This week we’re back with a special episode collecting the winners of our recent flash fiction contest! A huge congratulations to our winners – we’re looking forward to hearing more stories from them!
3rd Prize:
“Georgina and the Basilisk,” by Leslianne Wilder
Read by LaShawn Wanak2nd Prize:
“The Bear,” by Taven Moore
Read by Christiana Ellis1st Prize:
“Wuffle,” by Chantal Beaulne
Read by Nathaniel Lee
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep10
Christiana and Mike discuss episode 10 of Survivor Blood Vs Water
Let’s see what happens when we give them enough rope…
Pseudopod 361: The Murmurous Paleoscope
I narrated another story for Pseudopod, and now it’s live!
“The Murmurous Paleoscope” was originally published in THE THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE and can be read there. The story accurately reflects a few elements of 19th century fossil hunting culture: the importance of shales; the early women fossil hunters (including Mary Anning, for whom the Lens in the story is named); and the fossil “Bone Wars” of Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, which really did get violent and excessively paranoid.
DIXON CHANCE is the “just for the joy of it” pseudonym of David Ellis Dickerson, a regular contributor to “This American Life” and other public radio shows, and the author of the memoir HOUSE OF CARDS (Riverhead 2009) about my career as a writer at Hallmark. My work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
This story was an enormous amount of fun. You should listen, and then donate to support the great work that Escape Artists do in Pseudopod, Escape Pod and Podcastle!
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And I must say that I was utterly DELIGHTED by the way I am introduced as the narrator by Alasdair Stuart, the host:
“High Queen of Awesome and close friend of Nina Kimberly the Merciless. Evil space creatures cringe at her tread.”
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep09
Christiana and Mike discuss episode 09 of Survivor: Blood Vs Water
No, wait… It’s “Salt, Mealworms, and THEN the lime.”
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep08
Put your hands on your hips…
You bring your knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let’s do the time-warp again!
Christiana and Mike discuss episode 08 of Survivor Blood Vs Water!
As a special challenge in this episode, five Christianabucks to anyone who points out the dumbass numbers error I make in this episode!
Something Ventured, Nothing Gained S2E2 – “Hate Floats”
A re-watch of The Venture Brothers continues!
Join Christiana Ellis, Justin Diehl, and Jared Axelrod for a re-watch of the greatest cartoon ever!
This time, Richard Green was sadly absent, but we were joined by special guest Patrick McLean!
In this episode, they continue Season 2 with: “Hate Floats”!
Music is “Found Friday” by Chooch Schubert
Find all things Jared Axelrod at JaredAxelrod.com
And Justin Diehl podcasts here.
Richard Green does geeky things here!
Notes:
Holst’s “Mars: Bringer of War” on YouTube!
21 and 24’s version on YouTube!
“Can you read my mind? Probably not with that dart in your neck.”
“Can you read my mind?” scene from Superman on YouTube
“Discover the excitement and adventure of costumed aggression!”
Things that can stop a bullet from Mythbusters Results
And together, they form… some gangbangers, apparently.
“I smell weed.”
Mary Lou Retton, posing like on Hank’s poster, and also in “Scrooged”
“You do some pretty strange things when you date a super-villain.”
One can never have too many pickle forks… or can you?
Walton Goggins as “Venus” in “Sons of Anarchy”
Watch “The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon” on YouTube! “You can do it, Duffy Moon!”
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep07
Christiana and Mike discuss episode 07 of Survivor Blood Vs Water!
We’re trying this new strategy. It’s kind of underground, you probably haven’t heard of it.
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep06
Christiana and Mike discuss episode 06 of Survivor Blood Vs Water!
Talking About Survivor – Blood Vs Water Ep05
Let’s be clear, I’m not here because I’m a jerk.
Brad prepares for the Redemption Island Duel
Christiana and Mike discuss Episode 05 of Survivor Blood Vs Water
Something Ventured, Nothing Gained S2E1 – “Powerless in the Face of Death”
A re-watch of The Venture Brothers continues!
Join Christiana Ellis, Justin Diehl, and Jared Axelrod for a re-watch of the greatest cartoon ever!
In this episode, they begin Season 2 with: “Powerless in the Face of Death”!
Music is “Found Friday” by Chooch Schubert
Find all things Jared Axelrod at JaredAxelrod.com
And Justin Diehl podcasts here.
Richard Green does geeky things here!
Notes:
Why were the Three Musketeers called “Musketeers”?
The song from the opening sequence is the Aquagen Remix of “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)” by Tim Cox and Nigel Swanston featuring Rozella (YouTube)
The opening sequence bears remarkable similarities to the video for Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf”
Brock’s syringe: Filled with Dexter’s drug?
The Monarch’s gathering of contraband resembles the opening of HBO’s “Oz”
Where does the phrase “tow-headed” come from?
The “Viceroy butterfly” vs the Monarch
What happens in the event of just one brother’s death?
Is Doc’s “girlfriend” Skye dressed like Lola?
You be the judge! This is Lola from the film “Run Lola Run”, starring Franka Potente
Young Hector alongside Boy Adventurer: Rusty Venture
Hadji alongside Boy Adventurer Jonny Quest
Mister Dark, from “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Gary AKA 21, with his “Porkchop Sandwiches” tee-shirt and buttons which resemble the logos for Green Lantern, The Flash, and the Punisher
Carol Ann and her mother, covered with ectoplasm from the goo portal in Poltergeist.
Dr. O, covered with ectoplasm from the goo-portal
A tasteful reproduction Noguchi coffee table by Herman Miller. Now imagine it in a gorilla’s crotch.
