PodCastle Miniature 31: Down in the Flood
Show Notes
Rated PG. Contains children with the powers of gods, or Gods with the temperaments of children.
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Down in the Flood
by Nisi Shawl
The gods were at it again: giggling, babbling and running back and forth through the Abode of Heaven. Echoes rattled my drums and flutes against the walls where they were hung. A cymbal crashed to the floor.
“Quiet, kids!” I shouted out. “Settle down, or you’ll have to go play in the Void!”
About the Author
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl’s collection Filter House was a 2009 James Tiptree, Jr., Award winner; her stories have been published at Strange Horizons, in Asimov’s SF Magazine, and in anthologies including The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and both volumes of the Dark Matterseries. She was the 2011 Guest of Honor at the feminist SF convention WisCon and a 2014 co-Guest of Honor for the Science Fiction Research Association. She co-authored the renowned Writing the Other: A Practical Approach with Cynthia Ward, and co-edited the nonfiction anthology Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl’s Belgian Congo steampunk novel Everfair came out in 2016 from Tor Books.
About the Narrator
Elizabeth Green
Elizabeth Green as been reading stories for Podcastle through each of her different life changes: including teaching history of science at a liberal arts college, designing knitting patterns, doing freelance graphic design, and now working as the graphic designer for Girl Scouts of Central Texas. On weekends you can find her and her son playing samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings RPG. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Elizabeth read Beth Cato‘s story Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel for PodCastle episode 405 during the 2016 Artemis Rising event.
