Episode 220: Dinovember! Raptor Boy by Elise Forier Edie• Narrated by
Alex Hofelich• Guest host
Setsu Uzume• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter•
A Cast of Wonders original!A special thank you to our audio producer Jeremy Carter for the excellent photo in this week’s episode artwork. Check out his Etsy shop,
On The Edge Photos.
Elise Forier Edie is an author and playwright based in Los Angeles. Her speculative fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines, and her plays have been performed throughout the US and Canada. Recent works include the short story
Lucy in the Sky, about a little girl at war with the fairy queen, published this summer in
The Enchanted Conversation, and the forthcoming,
Backwater Saints, about rock bands and necromancers in the Florida everglades, due out in
Disturbed Digest in December. Her play
The Pink Unicorn, about a Christian widow grappling with her teenaged daughter’s announcement that she is genderqueer, will be playing in Pittsburgh in January 2017 at
Off the Wall. You can follow her
online or on
Twitter.
Alex Hofelich is Co-Editor of
Pseudopod, the longest running weekly short horror fiction podcast, which you can follow on
Twitter. He is currently re-reading the
Three Investigator series, which was one of his entry points to the horror genre. He recommends hunting down a copy of those or Roger Zelazny’s
A Night in the Lonesome October to help your journey.
I am running between cornfields on a dark country road. A rifle, slung on my back, pounds my spine. The moon rises ahead, gigantic and golden. I think of werewolves, of holes in the sky. I picture my spine unzipping, and a giant lizard crawling out of my skin. My foot snags on a tuft of grass. I stagger and catch myself before my chin hits the ground.
Behind me, in town, my older brother Arnie rallies with a troop of redneck warriors. They are frenzied on drugs, eager to maim. Their loud laughter circles the lone streetlamp, shining above Happy Dak's trailer park.Click here to listen to Episode 220Click here to read the text of the storyTags: Alex Hofelich, Cast of Wonders, Dinovember, Elise Forier Edie, fitting in, growing up, intolerance, Jeremy Carter, paganism, peer pressure, religion, Setsu Uzume, small town, transformation, Young Adult fiction
Edited audio file to correct glitch