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Things get weird in a shadow dimension populated by echoes of the film industry. Matt Dovey narrates. File under: Slipstream
Author Paul R Hardy is currently on a quest to find the adorable pets, eccentric family members and amusing work history required in an author biography. He occasionally takes short breaks to write stories for venues such as Unidentified Funny Objects, Diabolical Plots, StarShipSofa and Escape Pod.
Narrator Matt Dovey is very tall, very British, and probably drinking a cup of tea right now. His surname rhymes with "Dopey", but any other similarities to the dwarf are coincidence. He has short science fiction and fantasy stories all over the place: find out more at MattDovey.com, or follow him on Twitter @MattDoveyWriter.
 
Music:
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Bossa Antigua by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/3454-bossa-antiguaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Wiggly Worm Cha Cha by Groove Committee/Pond5
Smoking Gun by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4378-smoking-gunLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Touching Moments One – Pulse by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Touching Moments Two – Higher by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 004 by Sascha EndeLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5798-cinematic-suspense-series-episode-004License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Forsaken by Mikael HellmanLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5221-forsakenLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A mining town girl learns about life, larceny, and how to repair her pet: a found clockwork cat. Sarah Heiner narrates. File under: YA, steampunk, western.
Author Julia K. Patt is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Maryland. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other places. Follow her on Twitter (@chidorme) or check out her website juliakpatt.com for more.
Narrator Sarah Heiner, active in Second Life under the pseudonym of Bookworm, assisted in the editing of two of the three 'Tales from New Babbage' volumes, and has stories published in all three.  She lives in the fly-over land of Minnesota, with more books than she knows what to do with.
Full show notes at GalleryCurious.com

A horror story from the badlands of western Canada. Mildly NSFW. Wilson Fowlie narrates. 
Author Eddie Generous is a co-author of the collection Splish, Slash, Takin' a Bloodbath (written with Mark Allan Gunnells and Renee Miller) as well as the collection Dead is Dead, but Not Always. He runs Unnerving and Unnerving Magazine and he lives on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia with his wife and their cat overlords.
Narrator Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits his parents for any talent he has for it. He's been narrating for podcasts since he answered a call for readers for PodCastle in 2008. He’s narrated dozens of stories for many podcasts, including all of the Escape Artists shows. Wilson fits all this narrating between his day job as a web developer in Vancouver, Canada, and directing a community show chorus called The Maple Leaf Singers.
Full show notes at http://gallerycurious.com

A witch-child recounts the Russian Revolution and the abuse and hunger her family endured. Content note for suggestions of domestic violence. #darkFantasy 
Author Alexis Lantgen is a writer, 6th grade science teacher, and classical musician. Her stories have appeared in Phantaxis, Red Sun Magazine, and the Gallery of Curiosities, and she's written nonfiction for Renaissance Magazine. Alexis blogs at thewiseserpent.blogspot.com, and tweets @TheWiseSerpent. She lives with her husband, her four year old daughter, and their very patient cats in Carrollton, Texas.
Narrator Maria Rose is a graphic designer, writer, astrologer, classicist. Sometimes saturnine, mostly eccentric. She tends noisy society finches and remains unimpressed by cutesy bios containing mundane details about pets. Including her own. She's narrating her current project through ACX, "Messengers of the Right" forthcoming from University of Press Audiobooks.
Story music: Cinematic Soundscapes by Phil Michalski and Almost in F by Kevin MacLeod. 
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina.

A librarian is plagued with a pest of a customer. Benjamin Sperduto narrates. 
Author Edward McDermott, born in Toronto, has a professional day job but spends his spare time pursuing a writing career. Aside from taking writing courses and participating in writers' groups, Edward takes time for sailing, fencing, and working as a movie extra.
His web page is http://edwardmcdermott.net/
Narrator Benjamin Sperduto is a history teacher in Tampa, Florida. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Coven (Purple Sun Press), Bad Neighborhood (Spooky Words Press), and Dystopian Express (Hydra Publications). His first novel, The Walls of Dalgorod, is available from Curiosity Quills Press. For a full list of publications and fiction updates, visit www.benjaminsperduto.com or follow him on Twitter (@bensperduto).
Music: Investigations, Mysterioso March by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Osgoode's chorus: Novelle Noel by Kevin MacLeod
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by DEVM

Tonight, it's a fabulous furry double feature, featuring animals acting like humans, humans acting like animals, and maybe, just maybe, exactly what you think it's going to be. 
Author Barbara A. Barnett is a writer, musician, orchestra librarian, Odyssey Writing Workshop alum, coffee addict, wine lover, and all-around geek. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Shimmer, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online. Barbara lurks about the Philadelphia area and can be found online at babarnett.com.
Narrator Tepic Harlequin is an urchin who lives in the city of New Babbage, he is eight, going on ancient.
Author Diego Reymondez has made an appearance in Cleaver Magazine and has a forthcoming publication in Inwood, Indiana. Recently he’s left the states and is now in Spain working as an explorer in his food forest. When the crickets come out (or the mid-afternoon heat) and planting gets difficult, he writes.   
Narrator Byron is a disembodied voice living in a genuine reproduction Ming Dynasty vase in the foyer of the Gallery. You’ll notice it on your way out, there by the door.
 

Let's go clubbing!
And Evening At The Club as told by Dr. Horatio Boyle by Kate Philbrick. John Longenbaugh narrates. 
If You Were A Dinah Shore, My Love by Lou Antonelli. Byron narrates. 

The classic big game expedition to darkest Africa with a holiday twist. What could possibly go wrong? 
Quite a lot, actually. 
Richard Elen of Radio Riel narrates. 
Full show notes at gallerycurious.com

Happy Halloween! Osgoode is having trouble with some annual visitors, and he has two spooky stories for you.
John Cooper Hamilton tells of of how Hollywood coped with the Zombie Apocalypse, and Spencer Koelle takes us on an excursion to the Weird West.
What does Weird West have to do with Steampunk? Just ask any steampunk you happen to meet in the American Southwest. Matt Zophiel and Nonney Constantine narrate.
Explicit tag for brief f-bomb.
John Cooper Hamilton's website: https://johncooperhamilton.com/
Spencer Koelle's website: http://spencerkoelle.com/
Matt Zophiel's website: http://apocalypse.today/
Theme song – Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode’s Chorus – Cheap Horror by Segno Soundtrack
Story Music: In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com
Il Bandito by Ivia
Western Suspense by Patrick Coen
Old Western Saloon Ragtime Theme by Seaport Sound
Gathering Darkness by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com
Production Engineer – Kevin Frost

Tonight, the Czar’s Army is having a bit of trouble with the local fauna while pressing eastward across Manchuria. Their only hope? A jaded, insubordinate corporal from the Caucasus. Author Benjamin Sperduto narrates his own work.
Benjamin Sperduto is a history teacher in Tampa, Florida. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Coven (Purple Sun Press), Bad Neighborhood (Spooky Words Press), and Dystopian Express (Hydra Publications). His first novel, The Walls of Dalgorod, is available from Curiosity Quills Press. For a full list of publications and fiction updates, visit www.benjaminsperduto.com or follow him on Twitter (@bensperduto).
Cover art – Zmey Gorynych by Viktor Vasnetsov
Story music – Violin viola alt flute cello Sad duo soundtrack, Wailing Violins, by Konstantin Troika
Theme song – Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode’s Chorus – Walking Along by Kevin MacLeod
Production Engineer – Kevin Frost