Episode 191: Staff Pick 2015 – Makeisha in Time by Rachael K. JonesNarrated by
Laurice WhiteAudio production by
Rikki LaCosteOriginally published in
Crossed Genres, August 2014
Every year in January, Cast of Wonders takes the month off to recharge our batteries, plan the year ahead, and highlight some of our favourite episodes. As part of joining the
Escape Artists family, this year we’re pulling out all the stops. We’re running 10 staff pick episodes over the month, each one hosted by a different member of the Cast of Wonders crew.
We hope you enjoy audio producer
Jeremy Carter’s favorite story from 2015,
Makeisha In Time by
Rachael K. Jones and narrated by
Laurice White. The story originally aired August 30, 2015 as
Episode 176.
Makeisha has always been able to bend the fourth dimension, though no one believes her. She has been a soldier, a sheriff, a pilot, a prophet, a poet, a ninja, a nun, a conductor (of trains and symphonies), a cordwainer, a comedian, a carpetbagger, a troubadour, a queen, and a receptionist. She has shot arrows, guns, and cannons. She speaks an extinct Ethiopian dialect with a perfect accent. She knows a recipe for mead that is measured in aurochs horns, and with a katana, she is deadly.Click here to listen to Episode 191Click here to read the text of the storyOriginal Episode 176 notes:Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, an addiction to running, and a couple degrees. Now she writes speculative fiction in Athens, Georgia, where she lives with her husband. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of venues, including
Shimmer,
Lightspeed,
Accessing the Future,
Strange Horizons,
EscapePod,
Crossed Genres, and
Daily Science Fiction. She is an editor, a SFWA member, and a secret android. You can follow her on
Twitter and
WordPress.
The story is narrated by
Laurice White. Laurice is a recent theater graduate and long time theater student, has read stories for
Podcastle,
Pseudopod, and most recently for John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey on
The End is Nigh and
The End is Now, the first two volumes of
The Apocalypse Triptych.
Tags: Cast of Wonders, diversity, history, Laurice White, Rachael K. Jones, representation, Rikki LaCoste, Staff Pick, time travel, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult fiction
This story was also featured on PodCastle Ep. 345. Click here to read and comment on the Podcastle thread