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GlitterShip is an LGBTQ SF&F fiction podcast - bringing you audio versions of great queer science fiction & fantasy short stories!
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Saturday May 16, 2015
Saturday May 16, 2015
AND OUT OF THE STRONG CAME FORTH SWEETNESS
by Lisa Nohealani Morton
After the Collapse and the Great Reboot, Lila moved into the city and opened a barbershop.
Great things were happening in the city: spaceports and condominiums and public works projects outlined their soon-to-be-erected monuments to great men and women and superior city living in holographic glows. Angels patrolled the sky, resplendent with metal wings that sparkled in the sun when they banked for a turn. Everyone seemed to be full of exciting plans for the future, but Lila came from a long line of barbers and her humble shop only seemed fitting. She called the shop The Lion’s Mane, because there were lions, once.
A full transcript appears under the cut.
Friday May 08, 2015
Friday May 08, 2015
THE END OF THE WORLD IN FIVE DATES
by Claire Humphrey
I: May 21, 2011 (according to Harold Camping)
Robin called it an apartment, but it was really part of an old carpet factory in the Junction: an echoing space where one of the looms used to be, furnished with a broken church pew, two wheelchairs, and the bench seat from a minivan.
The smells of paint and dust were good, banishing the phantom smells of antiseptic and latex gloves from my nose. I leaned in the doorway of the breakroom and watched her sweep. “Where’s everyone going to sit?”
“On the floor,” she said. “That’s why I’m sweeping it.”
A full transcript appears under the cut.
Friday Apr 24, 2015
Friday Apr 24, 2015
ORDINARY SOULS
by K. M. Szpara
“This is a bad idea, Callum.” The sorceress rolled a colorful concoction of dried plants in a thin piece of cigarette paper and balanced it between her lips. “You know that, right?” The end smoldered on its own.
“Probably.” If Ethan didn’t know, would he forgive me?
I picked at a chunk of yellow foam exploding from my chair’s upholstery. She wouldn’t notice. Her whole apartment was crumbling slowly around her altar—chipped paint, smoke glazed walls, mysterious splatter on the floor. Serena was a ‘non-profit’ sorceress, one of the few who didn’t whore over-inflated skills in the private sector.
A full transcript appears under the cut.
Friday Apr 17, 2015
Friday Apr 17, 2015
THIS SHALL SERVE AS A DEMARCATION
by Bogi Takács
I.
Tiles flip over, land to sea to land. Enhyoron grimaces, rocks back in their chair, eyes still fixed on the ever-changing map. I can feel their moods on my skin and my skin burns, flares with frustration, chafes against my simple cotton garb.
I sit up on the futon and pull up one sleeve to examine my arm—lighter-toned in branching lines like the bare, defoliated frames of trees in winter. I used to be cut along those pathways, gleaming metal and shapeforming plastic set into flesh, embedded to remain inside—a part of me forevermore.
A full transcript appears under the cut.
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
THE TRUE ALCHEMIST
by Sonya Taaffe
for Mat Joiner
Whatever they left in the garden, Seth, I don’t think it wants to stay there.
The man and the woman who came about the gas meter yesterday, or maybe it was the water bill? I had a deadline, I barely noticed them except for the noises they made, the crunch of shoes on stiff grass, scrapes and clangs as if they were wrestling the dustbins back against the garage door, a sudden snap of bracken that startled me until I remembered the rose-canes you’d pulled down in great, dry-cracking armfuls, their petals the soft and blotted brown of foxed paper, dead as the end of Sleeping Beauty——I forgot to call the city to take them away, brambling like baling wire beside the shed...
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Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Thursday Apr 02, 2015
HOW TO BECOME A ROBOT IN 12 EASY STEPS
by A. Merc Rustad
How to tell your boyfriend you are in love with a robot:
- Tell him, “I may possibly be in love with a robot,” because absolutes are difficult for biological brains to process. He won’t be jealous.
- Ask him what he thinks of a hypothetical situation in which you found someone who might not be human, but is still valuable and right for you. (Your so-called romantic relationship is as fake as you are.)
- Don’t tell him anything. It’s not that he’ll tell you you’re wrong; he’s not like his parents, or yours. But there’s still a statistical possibility he might not be okay with you being in love with a robot.
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