Our latest story comes from the pen of Gary A. Mitchell, who originally wrote “Like Pharaoh Unto Joseph” for the anthology Rochester Rewritten, a collection of alternate histories, presents, and futures of our Flower City. As someone who likes to haunt flea markets, Gary chose the Rochester Public Market to be the subject of his…
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This month’s story takes us to deep into the Exclusion Zone around the contaminated Chernobyl nuclear power plant, decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident. Dogs, long abandoned by their owners during the mass evacuation, have survived and thrived … and are growing beyond the enforced boundaries. Mittemeyer and his team of veterinarians have been…
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Our audio short story this month is a modern-day fantasy by long-time Rochester-area writer, Nick DiChario. Nick has been publishing fantasy and science fiction stories since the early 1990s in such magazines as Galaxy’s Edge, Weird Tales, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy…
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In March 2015, the Rochester Speculative Literature Association was invited by local literary center Writers & Books to put on an evening of staged readings of stories from the anthology Rochester Rewritten to support that year’s speculative fiction selection in the popular program If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book. The event was a success — so much…
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Winter may be officially over in Western New York, but in our latest audio short story the fog lies bone-cold at the edge of spring, and the old man sits waiting with a blanket down at the end of Harkness Road… Written by the very talented Eric Scoles and beautifully read by local actor and…
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At long last, we have completed our first fully-produced, full-cast radio drama! And there was much rejoicing. “Take It or Weave It” is a half-hour comic fantasy written and directed by Meredith Powell Carroll and Ted Wenskus. War is afoot in the realm and sisters Hildegard and Prunella are merely trying to support their family as rag…
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