Banned Books Week – The Scent That Treason BringsThe Scent That Treason Brings - Staff Pick• by
Holly Schofield• Narrated by
Katherine Inskip• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter•
A Cast of Wonders original!•
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Click here to listen to Episode 269Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. She is the author of over fifty short stories, some of which are used in university curricula and have been translated into several languages. Her works have appeared in
Escape Pod, Lightspeed, Analog, and many other publications throughout the world. This is her fifth appearance in Cast of Wonders. Watch for new stories soon in
Analog, Brave New Girls, and
The Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. For more of her work, visit her
website or follow her on
Twitter.
Katherine Inskip, assistant editor of Cast of Wonders, teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles. Follow her
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Wings tightly closed, Scarp bustled around the printing workshop. With smooth, sure strokes, zie inked the wooden blocks of type. The new formulation made from snail mucus and oak bark spread on smoothly. One of zir pincher-like tarsi gripped the printing press' lever while both zir mid legs slid a sheet of paper over the inked blocks. The large screw creaked as zie lowered the platen and then raised it, releasing the paper. Scarp gave a brief twitch of satisfaction at the clarity of the text, then re-inked the blocks for the next blank sheetTags: Banned Books Week 2017, Cast of Wonders, collective action, colony, communism, free will, Holly Schofield, insects, Jeremy Carter, Katherine Inskip, metamorphosis, nonbinary, socialism, Texts Against Tyranny, Young Adult fiction