Episode 192: Staff Pick 2015 – There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot by Christian McKay HeidickerNarrated by
Marguerite KennerAudio production by
Rikki LaCosteA Cast of Wonders
original!
Every year in January, Cast of Wonders takes the month off to recharge our batteries, plan the year ahead, and highlight some of our favourite episodes. As part of joining the
Escape Artists family, this year we’re pulling out all the stops. We’re running 10 staff pick episodes over the month, each one hosted by a different member of the Cast of Wonders crew.
We hope you enjoy slush reader
Alexis Goble’s favorite story from 2015,
There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot by
Christian McKay Heidicker and narrated by
Marguerite Kenner. The story originally aired March 15, 2015 as
Episode 159.
Leticia Andrews saw the wizard hat on a Monday morning at 7:06 a.m. She was eating Lucky Charms in the kitchen nook. The hat was gray and tattered and sat in the window of her plastic princess house, which was in the backyard.Click here to listen to Episode 192Click here to read the text of the storyOriginal Episode 159 Notes:Christian McKay Heidicker’s work has appeared in
Spinetinglers,
Solarwyrm, and two separate publications called
Defenestration, a word that implies throwing something out the window, which Christian hopes doesn’t mean anything about his future. His first book
THE KING OF ARCADIA will be published by Simon & Schuster in the summer of 2016. You can find more of his work on his
website.
There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot is a Cast of Wonders original.
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