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Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on October 10, 2017, 11:26:07 AM

Title: CoW Ep. 274: Won’t You Please Give One of These Species-Planets a Second Chance?
Post by: danooli on October 10, 2017, 11:26:07 AM
Won’t You Please Give One of These Species-Planets a Second Chance? (http://www.castofwonders.org/2017/10/cast-of-wonders-274-wont-you-please-give-one-of-these-species-planets-a-second-chance/)

• by Nathan Hillstrom
• Narrated by Chris Williams
• Audio production by Jeremy Carter
• Originally published in Unidentified Funny Objects 5 (http://%7Chttp//www.ufopub.com/) (UFO Publishing, 2016)
• Read along with the text of the story (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cd4XJqOKzmXGBVN3voNi53Zu1YqxkcN6jAwrwrOu06A)
• Click here to listen to Episode 274 (http://archive.org/download/Wonders274/Wonders274.mp3)

Nathan Hillstrom has a sad but overwritten backstory involving computer science, a first career on Wall Street, and ruinous sashimi cravings. He now lives and writes in beautiful Southern California. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Interzone, Compelling SF, and elsewhere. Nathan is a graduate of the 2015 Clarion Writers’ Workshop. You can follow him online (http://nathanhillstrom.com/) and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/nathanhillstrom).

Chris Williams is a professional voice actor of just about every variety you can name. He works with private agencies, New Zealand TV and NZME, radio and a variety of international brand companies, drawing on experience in theater and documentary broadcasting dating back to 1981. He is in demand as a lead singer and MC for hire, working with big bands and variety shows since 2001. Contemporary songwriting is an exciting part of Chris’s passion for expression as he often reflects sociopolitical trends. He also composes music and songs designed to stimulate memory recall to help Alzheimer’s sufferers reconnect with family and friends using the power of music vibration backed by a knowledge of therapeutic harmonics. Chris’s hobbies include, cooking, scuba diving, energy therapy and stress release counselling and vocal coaching.

At 2:13pm EST on a slate-grey Tuesday, the Earth was caged.

The barrier appeared line by line, traced into existence by white-hot dots dragging their way through the thermosphere. From the lawn of the United Nations Headquarters, it looked like chicken wire wrought of pure light.

U.N. Secretary-General Ataahua Tan Tan Tamahi was strolling on the lawn as he took his lunch, a welcome break from the impossible demands of his job. He stopped chewing and stared at the sky. “Like chicken wire,” he said, to nobody in particular, before his security detail tackled him and knocked the pita pocket from his hands. After a mumbled consultation, they disentangled him from the protective huddle, brushed the grass off his suit, and whisked him to the U.N.’s basement bunker. The sandwich was left behind.


Tags: adoption, aliens, cages, Cast of Wonders, Chris Williams, coercion, committee, cooperation, diversity, food, Humane Society, Jeremy Carter, Nathan Hillstrom, negotiation, United Nations, Young Adult fiction