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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Episode 2 of Earth Crew 2042, an episodic radio play by the Sisters of Sci-Fi podcast that is a light-hearted love letter to 1970s sci-fi. The members of Earth Crew 2042 encounter a ship run by supercomputer 01000101 and it’s impudent humanoid inhabitants. Are they friendly, or is there something else, something… nefarious afoot? Written,…
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Trigger and content warning for discussions of genocide, massacres, warfare, murder (including murder of family members) and use of chemical weapons. These are mentioned without graphic details. A short speculative fiction audio story by L. Stephanie Tait. Read by Kimberly Rockwell. King Vusaad sits on his throne, in his empty kingdom, and muses on his…
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Earth Crew 2042 is a new episodic radio play by the Sisters of Sci-Fi podcast that is a light-hearted love letter to 1970s sci-fi. In the year 2042, Earthlings have conquered their solar system. The United Earth government has selected two astronauts to travel deep into the unknowns of our galaxy to expand the realms…
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