The Indie SoundBites Podcast The Indie Bites team

This episode's story, taken from our Vampires and Voyages issue, is Something Like Absolution, by Rebecca Crunden, read by Ben Morel.

Rebecca Crunden is an indie author of fantasy, science fiction and romance who lives in Cork, Ireland. If you enjoyed this story, why not try A Touch of Death, the first book in The Outlands Pentalogy. The series is a dystopian science fiction story set a thousand years in the future with the last of humanity living under a brutal, totalitarian regime. Check it out here.

This episode's story, taken from our Mermaids & Mythology issue, is Good and Beautiful, by Josie Jaffrey, read by Justine Malone.

CONTENT WARNING: This story contains implied sexual assault and miscarriage.

Josie Jaffrey is an indie author of fantasy novels who lives in Oxford, England. 

If you enjoyed this short story, you might enjoy The Wolf and The Water, the first book in Josie’s Deluge series. It’s an historical fantasy novel inspired by the myth of Atlantis, following a young girl racing to solve her father’s murder before her world is destroyed.

This episode's story, taken from our Mermaids & Mythology issue, is Ladies of the Abyss, by Alex Rollings, read by Matthew Blurton.

Alex Rollings is a self-published author of weird and ridiculous tales, based in Glasgow, Scotland, who teaches through the day and writes through the night. 

If you enjoyed this short story, then you might enjoy Adventuring with Extreme Prejudice, which follows Percy, a lad destined for a tedious future of words and numbers, as he apprentices himself to Marc, a man hunting a murky kind of glory. Percy’s decision will take him to the deepest, darkest places and put his world’s future squarely on his somewhat scrawny shoulders, and before the end, Percy will learn that being a hero is a dirty job.

This week's story, taken from our Vampires and Voyages issue, is Enduring Wrecks by Chris Durston, read by Max Windich.

Chris Durston is a writer from the South West of England, where he balances working on novels, short stories, podcasts, and comics with a day job in marketing for a company supporting autistic people and those with mental health issues. 

His novel Each Little Universe follows two oddball inventors as they try to teach a girl from the stars what it means to be human, the only way they know how: by being giant nerds. With “characters who might stay with you for the rest of your life”, it’s a “great read from open to close”. 

This episode's story, taken from our Vampires and Voyages issue, is A Little Drop of Blood Goes a Long Way by N.J. Simmonds, read by Justine Malone.

Content warning: contains graphic references to suicide.
 
N J Simmonds is a fantasy and speculative fiction author, and as one half of Caedis Knight also writes paranormal romance. 

If you enjoyed this short story, you'll also enjoy Vampires of Moscow, the addictive, funny and sexy first book of the Blood Web Chronicles. Follow Verity Witch, Saskia, as she investigates the Volkov vampire brothers in snowy Russia and gets more than she bargained for when she reveals her truth powers.