A sunlit room. Ras sits on the left reading her story while Eighteen's hand holds a field recorder, and our neighbor Althea holds a baby and performs the ambient audio accompaniment

DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR Speculative Storytelling podcast

A SCIFI/SPECULATIVE STORYTELLING & DISCUSSION SERIES

FEATURING

ORIGINAL WRITING +
BELOVED SLEPT-ON TALES +
ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO ACCOMPANIMENT +
RELATED DISCUSSION

WITH YOUR CYBORG HOST, magus monk (b.k.a. eighteen)
AND SPECIAL GUEST NEIGHBORS FROM TIME 2 TIME

///EPISODE #00

Eighteen introduces the listener to this new series and then waxes on at length about the slept-on feminist sci-fi short story writer, James Tiptree Jr/Alice B Sheldon.

From 21:43 begins the dramatic reading of Tiptree/Sheldon’s grim tale of rising facist men’s cult, The Screwfly Solution, featuring musical accompaniment by the spacer, @starsinmypockets.

CONTENT WARNING: sexualized violence & assault of women (part of the story’s riding theme), suicide

///EPISODE #01

Ras Mashramani reads her story GRL.SUICIDE.HOLIDAY from METROPOLARITY’s debut book, Style of Attack Report.

Audio accompaniment done live by Althea of SWARM & Bare TeetH collectives.

After the story, Ras and Eighteen hang out and talk about
social space and the early internet + video games/interactive narratives and mental health coping techniques + social work programs + institutions + getting published + using the 2nd person + working writer pro tips

and other ish. =)

Mentioned in the cast:
Thomas Ligotti
our temporary supervisor – https://libcom.org/library/our-tempor…
the town manager – http://www.theshortform.com/story/the…
the red tower – http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12…

procyon 2016 sci-fi anthology: http://bit.ly/2lzg3Iy
poc destroy sci-fi: http://www.destroysf.com/
stories for chip – http://bit.ly/2khFOgb

///FUTURE EPISODES

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