Episode 214: Banned Books Week – The Price of Stories by Shannon Connor Winward
• Narrated by
Katherine Inskip• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter• Banned Books Weeks 2016 photograph courtesy of
Jeremy Carter•
A Cast of Wonders Banned Books Week original!Shannon Connor Winward is the author of
Undoing Winter from Finishing Line Press. Her poems and stories appear in
Analog, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Flash Fiction Online, The Pedestal Magazine, Gargoyle and
PANK, and have been nominated, placed, or earned mention for many nifty awards. In between writing, parenting, and other madness, Shannon is also an officer for the Science Fiction Poetry Association, a poetry editor for Devilfish Review, and founding editor of Riddled with Arrows Literary Journal (set to debut in early 2017). Learn more on her
website.
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. You can follow her on
Twitter or her
website.
Mother is not the real librarian. You think she has always been here, but that’s the magic working.
The real librarian – the one who issued your first library card, painted castles in the reading room and taught you about elephants – she never existed, now. That’s why you don’t remember.
But don’t worry; she’ll be back.
Mother doesn’t come for the librarians.Click here to listen to Episode 229Click here to read the text of the story------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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