Perdita, Meaning Lost•
Content Warning: miscarriage• by
Edd Vick• Narrated by
Mary Murphy• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter• Guest host
Katherine Inskip•
A Cast of Wonders original!•
Read along with the text of the story•
Click here to listen to Episode 275Edd Vick, the son of a pirate, is a recovering Texan now living in Seattle. He is a bookseller whose library is a stuffed three-car garage. His stories have appeared in
Analog, Asimov’s, Year’s Best SF, and about forty other magazines and anthologies.
Mary Murphy is an actress/voice-over artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Narration/Audio Drama highlights include audiobooks for Audible & Dreamscape, an audio drama of
Dracula by QuickSilver, and the award-winning children’s audio series
Billy Brown. Currently she can be heard voicing the role of Dashi on Disney Junior’s
Octonauts, voicing multiple roles for PBS Kids’ Past/Present, and voicing several characters for the series
Muzzy in the US. She also performs regularly in radio theatre and can be heard on the
Fireside Mystery Theatre podcast and Midnight Shorts Series. You can find her on
Soundcloud.
When Ailsa and her husband the King lost their firstborn daughter to the fairy maid who spun gold from heather, they were broken in heart and sought their child in every way they knew. They offered rewards, they sent freemen and peasants to scour the country, diplomats and spies to seek her in other lands, and rogues and privateers to search the seas. They consulted witches and wizards, wise crones and learned fools, and even a talking horse; who truth to tell was not nearly so intelligent as he claimed.Tags: Cast of Wonders, changeling, Edd Vick, Faery, Jeremy Carter, Katherine Inskip, lost child, Mary Murphy, seeking, Young Adult fiction