1 hr 4 min

S4 E9: A Song for Sunken Streets & When Two Swordsmen Meet Kaleidocast

    • Arts

A Song for Sunken Streets by Evan Berkow, Read by Lanna Joffrey

Nona is a loner living in a flooded Brooklyn. She's running away from her past and looking for hope. What she finds is a mermaid on a mission. The fate of New York City depends on their ability to see past their trauma.

Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in places such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and Flash Fiction Online. You can find him on Twitter @Evan_Berkow.

Lanna Joffrey is an award-winning Iranian performer and writer who has worked throughout the United States and United Kingdom in theatre, film, spoken word and audio work. Her verbatim play, "Valiant" has received critical acclaim having toured throughout the UK and US and was published last year. For more info on her work please visit www.lannajoffrey.com


When Two Swordsmen Meet by Ellen Kushner, Read by Wilson Fowlie

In a cold, cobblestone city, when two swordsman meet, you never know what might happen--fame, glory, theft, dreams, love--but something always does.

Ellen Kushner is the author of the queer fantasy classic Swordspoint, and other novels, including the World Fantasy Award-winning Thomas the Rhymer. Kushner has recorded her work as audiobooks for Neil Gaiman Presents. She lives in New York City with her wife, author and educator Delia Sherman, and a great many theater and airplane ticket stubs she is too disorganized to throw out.

Wilson Fowlie lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada and has been reading aloud since the age of 4. His life has changed recently: he lost his wife to cancer, and he changed jobs, from programming to recording voiceovers for instructional videos, which he loves doing, but not as much as he loved Heather.

A Song for Sunken Streets by Evan Berkow, Read by Lanna Joffrey

Nona is a loner living in a flooded Brooklyn. She's running away from her past and looking for hope. What she finds is a mermaid on a mission. The fate of New York City depends on their ability to see past their trauma.

Evan Berkow is a writer of speculative fiction in the hours when he's not lawyering. His fiction has appeared in places such as Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and Flash Fiction Online. You can find him on Twitter @Evan_Berkow.

Lanna Joffrey is an award-winning Iranian performer and writer who has worked throughout the United States and United Kingdom in theatre, film, spoken word and audio work. Her verbatim play, "Valiant" has received critical acclaim having toured throughout the UK and US and was published last year. For more info on her work please visit www.lannajoffrey.com


When Two Swordsmen Meet by Ellen Kushner, Read by Wilson Fowlie

In a cold, cobblestone city, when two swordsman meet, you never know what might happen--fame, glory, theft, dreams, love--but something always does.

Ellen Kushner is the author of the queer fantasy classic Swordspoint, and other novels, including the World Fantasy Award-winning Thomas the Rhymer. Kushner has recorded her work as audiobooks for Neil Gaiman Presents. She lives in New York City with her wife, author and educator Delia Sherman, and a great many theater and airplane ticket stubs she is too disorganized to throw out.

Wilson Fowlie lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada and has been reading aloud since the age of 4. His life has changed recently: he lost his wife to cancer, and he changed jobs, from programming to recording voiceovers for instructional videos, which he loves doing, but not as much as he loved Heather.

1 hr 4 min

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