Urchins, while Swimming by Cat Valente live in Podcastle

A wonderful story by Cathrynne M. Valente was given to me to narrate for Podcastle . It's a wonderful modern version of the Rusalka story about a river nymph who entices men into the water.

There are lots of Russian names in the story and a lullaby to sing 3 times, by3 different female characters. I loved this story. It rolled right of the tongue despite the Russian (which I don't speak and don't know the rules of pronunciation for) and is beautifully written. It packs a bit of an emotional punch too. I hope you enjoy it!

Here's the link: Urchins, While Swimming
Or download it at iTunes.

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Tales to Terrify

The StarShipSofa Podcast magazine has recently launched (on Friday the 13th...of January) a sister podcast featuring all things creepy and horrifying - Tales to Terrify. The podcast's host, Larry Santoro, is perfect for this project and does a fantastic job. The show will include fiction, poetry and fact articles (just like StarshipSofa), like 'Tour of the Abattoir' by Mike Allen. It should prove capable of making you shudder and populating your nights with the stuff of nightmares.

This week features a story that I narrated by Tim Waggoner - "Unwoven". It's a short little story about a woman who wreaks havoc with the world by killing a spider. Also included is a poem by Maria Alexander, whose poetry collection - At Louche Ends - is up for a Stoker Award and fiction by Kim Newman. Enjoy!

Poetry Planet No. 5 Time Travel Part 1

The 5th installment of Poetry Planet has gone live! This one is on the theme of Time Travel and is the first of 2 parts. Find it here.

Poetry by:

Rachel Swirsky, Things to Pack for my Trip Through Time

• Through the Drowsy Dark, from Aquaduct Press

Bruce Boston, Polar Chronologies

• Surrealities,  from Dark Regions

Sandra Lindow, An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice

• Touched by the Gods, Sam's Dot Publishing

G. O. Clark, Looking to the Past

•  In Shroud of Night and other poetry collections at Dark Regions
• The Saucer Under My Bed (short stories), from Sam's Dot Publishing

G. E. Schwartz, Centering; and Intermediary

• Only Others Are: poems and Living in Tongues: poems, from Legible Press

Michael Fosburg, Illo Tempore

Laurel Winter, Time Travel Verb Tenses

• Growing Wings (YA Novel), Puffin

 Go in droves!

In Poetry News:

• Eye to the Telescope - SFPA's online Magazine
• What Rhymes with 'Undead'? Some Poets know, in the New York Times
• Rhyme and Reason: the Victorian Poet Scientists, in the New Scientist
• Star*Line, the SFPA's quarterly journal

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