Written and read by Lili Fox-Lim Text of the story: Flow State Sweat beaded on her temple, not just from the heat. The rhythmic crashing allowed her attention to find its habitual peace. A juicy wave on the horizon. Ale began to sprint. The juvenile edge of the wave walled up. Perfect. It peeled over….
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Written and read by Nadia Vazquez Text of the story: Happy Birthday She clutched the tiny bundle of chaos, tiptoeing toward the purple quilt that enveloped her brother. The creaky floorboards betrayed her. He opened his eyes. “Now that you’re seven, you can see,” she whispered, holding out the fuzzy, smelly chaos. “This is my…
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Written and read by Kimberly Rockwell Text of the story: Mitigation Translation When the alien transmission arrived, every senior analyst agreed on one thing: it was a threat.The syntax was sharp. The cadence hostile. The verbs clearly aggressive.But the youngest linguist in the room saw the anomaly—a single word that refused to align. “Trixdadhl” didn’t…
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A short story about a new life for a weapon of war long after they were abandoned on a foreign planet. This is a microfiction from a longer short story by L. Stephanie Tait Written and read by L. Stephanie Tait Text of the story: Transformation The last thing she’d remembered was destruction.But as her…
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