Description: Thomas Jancis reads “Vampire Fashion Tricks” Excerpt: “Results were inconclusive.” “How so?” “Well. Vlad didn’t combust or anything.” “That seems conclusive to me.”   Links & References: The Dog Days of Podcasting homepage Thomas Jancis we...

Description: “Truth” and “Power”  – two pieces of micro-fiction. Excerpt: “Sometimes,” I answered. “But sometimes Truth hides in darkness because it’s too real, or too painful, or because we aren’t yet ready to see it.

Description: Flash-fic, read by Selena Taylor. Life finds a way. Excerpt: She scooped the transparent fish out of the water, expecting it to gasp in desperation, but it seemed completely tranquil, suspended between her hands as content as it had seemed...

Description: This episode is SUPER RAMBLY! In a departure from her usual offering of stories, the Bathtub Mermaid discusses her first adventure with CSA. Excerpt: CSA – Community Sustained Agriculture. I received my first farmbox today.

Description: A little girl faces her fears… in jet blank ink. Excerpt: Mandy stopped using pencils when she was six, except for math. She moved beyond wide-ruled paper when she was seven, and they sent her to Special Education to learn cursive because ...

Description: Inspiration comes from odd places… and sometimes things get creepy. Excerpt: As I was looking for art to help me write the story, I stumbled across an article from a few months earlier about a homeowner in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of...

Description: Some house noises are different than others. Excerpt: These doors don’t have the kind of locks that rattle, but if we’re sitting in the living room, just reading by the fire or maybe watching television (I admit,

Description: It’s about power… Excerpt: They stare up at me, waiting, their luminous eyes large, and tracking my every move. Every flash of my knife makes their heads twitch a little bit. Every time they hear the blade contact the wooden block they fli...

Description: Puddle-jumping isn’t just for children any more. Excerpt: Once I’d managed to walk between raindrops, I decided it was time to dive into puddles. That took a bit longer to master. I mean, flying may be as simple as – how did Douglas Adams ...

Description: When there’s an itch that really needs to be scratched. Excerpt: She’d roast him first, of course. Dragon fire killed the pain and added a crispy outer shell that was just so… She was distracted from her search for the perfect word by anot...