Cast of Wonders 263: A Coat For Aodh• by
Ika Koeck• Narrated by
Wilson Fowlie• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter•
A Cast of Wonders original!•
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Click here to listen to Episode 263Born a Malaysian with a hint of Dutch bloodline,
Ika Koeck’s passion for writing began when she was twelve after an accidental encounter with a fantasy novel left her mind reeling with ideas.
Her short stories have appeared in Ages of Wonder, an anthology published by DAW books and 100-Stories-For-Queensland, a charity anthology in aid of the survivors of the 2011 Queensland Flood. Her most recent publication is “Skin Deep”, published in Aurealis #91 and “Jungle Fever”, published in The Apex Book of World SF 3. Another fantasy short story, “To Dance The Dragon”, will be published in Ares Magazine in 2018.
When she is not travelling the world, Ika is working on her next short story or novel, running a race somewhere, training to be a triathlete, or being a butler for her cats. You can follow her
online and on
Twitter.
Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits any talent he has in this area to his parents, who are both excellent at reading aloud.
He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008, when he answered a call for readers on the PodCastle forum. Since then, he has gone on to become PodCastle’s most prolific narrator, reading or appearing in nearly 30 episodes. He’s a proud member of the Escape Artists hat trick club, having narrated for
PodCastle, EscapePod and
Pseudopod as well as
Cast of Wonders, in addition to
StarShipSofa,
Beam Me Up, Cast Macabre, Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine and the
Journey Into… podcast.
Wilson fits in all this narrating between his day job as a web developer in Vancouver, Canada, and being the director of a community show chorus called
The Maple Leaf Singers.
I have always hated the cold. It makes the simplest of tasks impossible. Trying to tighten the girth around a gelding that was holding his breath on purpose was already difficult with one weak hand and one bad leg. In the cold night, my numb hands simply refused to cooperate, and I was in the midst of heaving, puffing, and cursing the horse’s ancestors when Tipsy meowed and alerted me to a visitor.
I looked over my shoulder to see a young man of maybe fifteen summers, peeking from the side of the stall.Tags: accident, Cast of Wonders, cat, deception, different worlds, Ika Koeck, Jeremy Carter, law, murder, mystery, sacrifice, sea, selkie, special needs, Wilson Fowlie, Young Adult fiction