Episode 224: Welcome to Willoughby’s by Michael Reid• Narrated by
Motti Schleider• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter•
A Cast of Wonders original!Michael Reid bookends his days working to perfect his method for turning cups of tea into stories. His work has appeared on
EscapePod and in
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. In 2015, he attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, from which the main take-away was that he should stop trying to solve story problems by randomly inserting volcanoes. He lives near Toronto, Canada, with his husband, a big white dog, and a volcano. During the middle bits of the day, he teaches astronomy to anyone who will listen. Follow him on
Twitter.
Motti Schleider lives in the northeast, has a cat named Mr. Blake, loves gaming of all kinds, and is an avid reader. He’s also a newly minted Cast of Wonders slush reader, so please join us in welcoming him into the fold.
You ever been to Upsilon Orionis? As far as asteroid belts go, that one's pretty weird. Someone dragged every last asteroid in that system right up close to the star then built a temple to a different sun god on each one. How about Beta Pictoris? That solar system isn’t even properly formed yet and there’s already a golf course in its asteroid belt. It has fairways and sand traps and everything, with each and every hole on a different rock. So you could say I've seen a lot of weird stuff in asteroid belts. But the taxidermist was definitely the weirdest of them all.Click here to listen to Episode 224Click here to read the text of the storyTags: Cast of Wonders, choice, Jeremy Carter, Michael Reid, Motti Schleider, Science Fiction, sentience, space, taxidermy, Weird, Young Adult fiction