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Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on March 13, 2018, 11:25:28 AM

Title: CoW Ep. 295: An American Refugee - Artemis Rising 4 (and Ep. 342!)
Post by: danooli on March 13, 2018, 11:25:28 AM
Cast of Wonders 295: Artemis Rising 4 – An American Refugee (http://www.castofwonders.org/2018/03/cast-of-wonders-295-artemis-rising-4-an-american-refugee/)

Also, Episode 342! A Staff Pick for 2018! Hosted by associate editor Emma Smailes (http://www.castofwonders.org/2019/01/cast-of-wonders-342-staff-picks-2018-an-american-refugee/)

• Author: Tiah Marie Beautement
• Narrator: Julia Rios
• Hosts: Alexis Goble
• Hosts: Emma Smailes
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter
• Artist : Geneva Benton
Cast of Wonders 295: An American Refugee is a Cast of Wonders original.
• Click here to listen to Episode 295 (https://archive.org/download/Wonders295/Wonders295.mp3)
• Click here to listen to Episode 342 (https://archive.org/download/Wonders295/Wonders342.mp3)

Tiah Marie Beautement (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/tiah-marie-beautement/) is an American-Brit living on the South African Garden Route with her family, two dogs, and a flock of chickens. She is author of the award nominated This Day (2014, Modjaji), Moons Don’t Go To Venus (2006, Bateleur), and numerous short stories. She is also the managing editor of the TSSF journal, teaches writing to all ages, a writer for FunDza, and conducts book reviews & interviews for publications, including the Sunday Times. In her spare time she has been spotted riding pillion on a motorbike and belly dancing. Visit her blog (https://tiahbeautement.wordpress.com/) or follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ms_tiahmarie)

Julia Rios (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/julia-rios/) is a Hugo award winning editor, writer, podcaster, and narrator. Julia is currently the Fiction Editor for Fireside Magazine, and her own fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit among other places. She is a co-host of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, a general SF discussion podcast, and she has narrated stories for Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Find her on Twitter as @omgjulia (https://twitter.com/omgjulia) or online at http://www.juliarios.com/ (http://www.juliarios.com/).

I first spot the surfer as I run down the path that cuts below the lighthouse. I can’t believe it. The Point is full of holiday campers, so motors are banned on the water until eight a.m. and it is only six-thirty. I run down the steps; reaching the bottom of the peninsula, I find that the few souls that are awake are calm and content. Strange. But when I reach the part of the path that curves at the base of Inner Pool I realize why.

No sound.


Tags: acceptance, Alexis Goble, Artemis Rising, Artemis Rising 4, asylum, first kiss, Gender identity, Julia Rios, LGBT, Modern SF, refugees, romance, Science Fiction, scifi, South Africa, surfing, teenagers, Tiah M. Beautement

Title: Re: CoW Ep. 295: An American Refugee
Post by: Feverwood on March 18, 2018, 11:43:33 PM
Cast of Wonders 295: Artemis Rising 4 – An American Refugee (http://www.castofwonders.org/2018/03/cast-of-wonders-295-artemis-rising-4-an-american-refugee/)

• Author: Tiah Marie Beautement
• Narrator: Julia Rios
• Hosts: Alexis Goble
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter
• Artist : Geneva Benton
Cast of Wonders 295: An American Refugee is a Cast of Wonders original.
• Click here to listen to Episode 295 (https://archive.org/download/Wonders295/Wonders295.mp3)

Tiah Marie Beautement (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/tiah-marie-beautement/) is an American-Brit living on the South African Garden Route with her family, two dogs, and a flock of chickens. She is author of the award nominated This Day (2014, Modjaji), Moons Don’t Go To Venus (2006, Bateleur), and numerous short stories. She is also the managing editor of the TSSF journal, teaches writing to all ages, a writer for FunDza, and conducts book reviews & interviews for publications, including the Sunday Times. In her spare time she has been spotted riding pillion on a motorbike and belly dancing. Visit her blog (https://tiahbeautement.wordpress.com/) or follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ms_tiahmarie)

Julia Rios (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/julia-rios/) is a Hugo award winning editor, writer, podcaster, and narrator. Julia is currently the Fiction Editor for Fireside Magazine, and her own fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit among other places. She is a co-host of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, a general SF discussion podcast, and she has narrated stories for Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Find her on Twitter as @omgjulia (https://twitter.com/omgjulia) or online at http://www.juliarios.com/ (http://www.juliarios.com/).

I first spot the surfer as I run down the path that cuts below the lighthouse. I can’t believe it. The Point is full of holiday campers, so motors are banned on the water until eight a.m. and it is only six-thirty. I run down the steps; reaching the bottom of the peninsula, I find that the few souls that are awake are calm and content. Strange. But when I reach the part of the path that curves at the base of Inner Pool I realize why.

No sound.


Tags: acceptance, Alexis Goble, Artemis Rising, Artemis Rising 4, asylum, first kiss, Gender identity, Julia Rios, LGBT, Modern SF, refugees, romance, Science Fiction, scifi, South Africa, surfing, teenagers, Tiah M. Beautement



I really like this story, as a trans woman we need more stories about our lives, the fears we have now that it seems the world wants to step back, try to force those that do not fit what they define as normal back into the closet.

This story says that we are not going back, we matter and you do not scare us.

Keep flying, we win just by existing.


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