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Solo Multigenre Anthology Audio Book
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CatsCast publishes fun speculative cat stories. We hope that each story leaves its cat-loving listeners a little happier -- or at least amused or hopeful -- after listening than they were before.
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Anthology
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Solo
Genres: Multigenre, Fantasy, Science fiction
Maturity: All audience
Country of origin: International
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CatsCast 26: The Gingerbread House
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:01:00 +0000
Author: Jenny Hart Narrator: Katherine Inskip Hosts: Laura Pearlman and Katherine Inskip Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
This story is a Cast of Wonders and CatsCast original.
The Gingerbread House
by Jenny Hart
The air has only just begun to smell of autumn as I head for Gingerbread Cottage, where I am to house sit two cats for the winter. I have packed warm clothes and antihistamines, and the emailed instructions are both simple and strange. Feed the cats and clean up after them and yourself. But don’t let them out, no matter how much they ask.
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CatsCast 25: The Invention of a Cat
Sun, 04 Aug 2024 04:32:00 +0000
August, 2024 Author: Carolina Valentine Narrator: Laura Pearlman Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
This story is a CatsCast original.
The Invention of a Cat
by Carolina Valentine
The haunting had started at 2 a.m., and my local Joann didn’t open until nine. I was in the parking lot at 8:30, and while several Joann employees passed by my car on the way to the doors, I kept scrolling on my phone, feigning disinterest, instead of begging to be let in early. Even after the night I’d had, I wasn’t going to be That Customer.
I focused my bloodshot eyes on the featured article in the Journal of Theoretical Witchcraft—something about the potency of blood moon spells—and checked once or twice on the spectral wound I’d slathered in dubious Taint-Be-Gone and expired Neosporin. Despite the mustiness of the gauze wrapping I’d found for it, the four claw-like marks probably wouldn’t fester.
In theory. Which is what I did. Theory.
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CatsCast 24: Queen of the Mouse Riders
Sat, 06 Jul 2024 05:56:00 +0000
Author: Annie Reed Narrator: Summer Brooks Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
This story originally appeared in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.
Queen of the Mouse Riders
by Annie Reed
Gurgling yowls echoed off the tiled floor in Sarah’s bathroom. Bounced off the ceiling, gaining strength, and intruded on what was turning out to be a very, very nice dream featuring the star of a movie she’d watched just before bed.
In the dream, the star turned his incredibly expressive eyes in Sarah’s direction, smiled his best enigmatic smile, and said, “Pardon me, darling, but is that your cat?”
(In the dream he’d turned British. She happened to know he’d been born and raised in the Bronx. Dreams were just plain weird sometimes.)
“Yes,” she said. “She’s apparently caught a mouse.”
Starlight the Cat had a battle cry like a two-note yodeler gargling mouthwash. She reserved that particular cry for whenever she caught a mouse. Or something that looked like a mouse. Or a mouse-shaped stuffed toy.
Most of the time she’d only caught one of her toys. Thank goodness. But on at least on memorable occasion she’d interrupted a visit from Sarah’s mother by presenting a live mouse as the third course for their lunch date.
Sarah’s mother was deathly afraid of mice.
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CatsCast 23 Preview: The Best Way to Procure Breakfast
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:16:00 +0000
February, 2024. Author: Dana Vickerson Narrator: Peter Adrian Behravesh Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
This story [originally appeared in Zooscape.
A content note: this story deals with themes of grief and loss.
The Best Way to Procure Breakfast
by Dana Vickerson.
If Mama doesn’t get up soon, we’re going to miss our chance to get off Mars.
Mama is a human, but I call her “Mama” because she says I am her baby kitty and her special boy. She is sleeping, but I am hungry.
It’s a delicate art, waking up your human. If you’re too eager, they’ll likely get cross with you, and while Mama is a sweet and kind soul, I do not like to see her cross. If you are too gentle, though, your human is likely to continue their blissful sleep while you sit on the floor with a rumble in your belly.
So, like most mornings, I start today by walking back and forth across my human’s pillow. This is less startling than just going right for patting her face. The soft rhythm of my paws around her head signals to Mama that it’s time to start the process of bringing her consciousness to the here and now, where my kibble lives.
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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:01:00 +0000
Blood Water
by J.A. Bryson
The blood on Zip’s hands is dried the color of rust and sticks like clay under her fingernails. Mostly, it isn’t hers. Mostly, it belongs to the man she shivved, the one who mistook her for an easy mark. Zip is gray-eyed and hunger-slight. She’s a lot of things – fast, fierce, speechless since birth – but she isn’t easy. The old timers know this. The man waiting at the pits to grab her while she took a piss, he did not know this.
He’s a newcomer. His people came when jets rained fire on their homeland. They have no code. They left their children and their old timers to burn.
Their language is violence. One needn’t words to speak it.
Outside camp, Zip finds shade in a stand of scraggly pines with peeling bark and sun-bleached needles. She drags her palms over the parched earth. The blood remains. It doesn’t flake or rub away. She thinks to spit on it, to make a paste, to paint its warning on her sunken cheeks, but her tongue is swollen with thirst. She hasn’t spit to spare.
If it doesn’t rain soon, her band will strike up camp. Better to move than to choke on dust – to become dust. She closes her eyes and swallows. Her heart beats too fast.
The man she shivved will die. Serves him right for making her sweat.
Propped against a tree, Zip drifts. She doesn’t hear Cat come. She wakes to his rough tongue grazing her knuckles. Groggily, she peeps an eye. The sun is not where she remembers it.
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CatsCast 21 Preview: Kindly, Stop for Me
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:18:00 +0000
December, 2023. Author: K. M. Veohongs Narrator: Dave Robison Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
This story originally appeared inTranslunar Traveler's Lounge, February 2022
A content note: there is some death in this one.
Kindly, Stop for Me
by K.M. Veohongs
I rise from my spot by the window in Room 126 of the Sunny Glades Home for Health and Rehabilitation. The sun set an hour ago, so it’s no great loss. My front paws extend, claws out, before I shift my weight forward and kick out each hind leg. I don’t have the range of motion I once did — everything creaks and clicks now — but since the moment I selected my first feline host, I found there is nothing quite so satisfying as a good stretch.
I jump down and land on the tiled floor, hard. I wish they’d carpet the rooms, but that’s hardly sanitary, is it? The hop up onto the bed is more difficult still. We’re in the hospice wing, of course, and these beds are tall. I’ve still got the ups to make it, but it’s a near thing.
Finding a replacement body should be on the top of my to-do list. This one is rather past its natural expiration date, and if I don’t find a new host before it gives out completely, I’ll be as rudderless as the souls I’m supposed to help. It’s only that I’m rather attached to the form I’m currently inhabiting. I’ve been Archimedes for so long now, I’m not sure I remember how to be anyone else.
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CatsCast 20: Re-release: The Cat
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:22:00 +0000
Author: Nicole Walsh Narrator: Matt Dovey Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producers: Wilson Fowlie and Dave Robison
This month we’re re-running The Cat by Nicole Walsh, which ran on our patron-only feed in June, 2022.
Content note: although it’s not a major theme, there is some domestic abuse in this story.
This story originally appeared in Teleport Magazine in May, 2021.
The Cat
by Nicole Walsh
The cat followed him home.
Tomas Shine spent three and a half minutes in the stairwell hyperventilating. He heard Mrs Helen Acres, the widow from Unit Two, clatter and batter her way out her door, shopping bags in hand. She spotted the cat outside the stairway and reversed soundlessly into her unit.
Tomas sucked in a ragged breath, filling his lungs to the brim, and looked up. The cat waited on the far side of the glass door. Its tail lashed back and forth. Tomas used the rail to heave himself upright, then crept down the stairs. He opened the door. The cat stood, butt shooting into the air, tail upright like a comma. It mewed.
Tomas stepped aside.
The cat led the way up the stairs. Tomas walked slowly, careful not to step on it. His hand was shaking so badly he couldn’t get the key into the lock. His work bag slid awkwardly down his arm. Sweat pooled at his armpits, licking wet trails past his ribs.
The cat pressed into his leg. A small, frightened noise slipped from his throat.
“I’m sorry,” he gasped. “I’m trying.”
Nervous sweat coated his fingertips. The keys slipped free. They landed on the tiled floor with a loud clang, startling the cat. Tomas pressed into the wall, hand raised defensively.
“Sorry!”
The cat stared, tail low and flicking. Tomas crouched slowly, extending a shaking hand for the keys. For a sickening moment he was almost eye to eye with the creature. Tomas rose. He slowly and deliberately inserted the correct key into the lock and opened his door.
A small white shape flittered past his brown work shoes.
It was done.
Tomas Shine had a cat.
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CatsCast 19 Preview: Short Tales: Memories
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:31:00 +0000
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Authors: Nathan Susnik and Monica Joyce Evans Narrators: George Fowlie and Sandy Parsons Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
The Tan One by Nathan Susnik originally appeared in Shoreline of Infinity.
Alligators by Monica Joyce Evans originally appeared in Nature Futures
The Tan One
by Nathan Susnik
Some days I pick the white pill. Other days it’s the black. For some reason or another, I prefer the brown pill on Tuesdays. Today, feels like it’s going to be one of my bad days. So, I pinch the tan pill between my thumb and index finger, flick it into my mouth and take a slug of water. It catches halfway down, but when I swallow again, it dislodges quickly enough. As it hits my stomach, I’m already more optimistic. My cat rubs against my leg.
“Oh, hello Lionel,” I say. Abyssinians have ticked fur. It looks like one color from afar, but if examined closely, it’s actually bands of light and dark shades. I bend down, leaning hard on my cane (it’s really more of a modern crutch) and stroke him. Pain shoots out of my lower back, wrapping around my hip. But I clench my jaw, ignoring it, running my hand over the cat’s back. He purrs, and perhaps today won’t be so bad after all.
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Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:01:00 +0000
Author: Ember Randall Narrator: Laura Pearlman Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
This story is a CatsCast original.
Match.Cat
by Ember Randall
They say cats have nine lives, but that’s not quite right. Nine is more of an average--in reality, you get as many as Death gives you, which means it behooves any sensible cat to suck up while they can.
Or, at least, that’s what I told myself as I wound around Death’s legs, giving them my best never-been-petted meow--the unmatched quality of their ear scritches had nothing to do with it.
A snort echoed above me. “You look like one of those spoiled lap cats you’re always deriding, you know.”
I glared up at Alfonsius--Lord Alfonsius Darrowfell of the Silent Wing, to give the owl the full title he often insisted on. “Insurance is never wasted.” I was on my seventh life, and a cat couldn’t be too careful, right?
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Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:22:00 +0000
August, 2023. Author: Jolie Toomajan Narrator: Kat Day Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
This story will appear in Posthaste Manor by Tenebrous Press in October 2023.
Content Note: This is a horror story. There’s a little gore. No cats are harmed in this story, but I make no such promises regarding the humans.
The Absolutely True and Correct Account of the Honorable Mlle. Cassandra von Archambault, Affectionately and Begrudgingly Known to Her Friends and Family as Echo
As told to Jolie Toomajan
Let it be known I only care because of Mother. She is a good Mother who says I am her little Mar Lean Deet Trick, which makes no sense but that is fine. Motheris not stupid, but she can't see It the way I can. Sometimes Mother can feel It; she will walk into a room and shiver, curl her nose at the burning smell, and press her hand to the walls above the light switches. Then I will look over at the corner and It will be there, mouths upon mouths upon mouths and all of those mouths are edged with the smoldering orange of burning paper. I stare until It leaves, and I don’t blink so It knows I mean business. Sometimes Mother can't feel It at all, even when It undulates over the back of the sofa and sniffs her hair. When It drapes over her buttoned headboard at night, I almost die from fright, but It lets me chase It away. I worry about how I could protect her if It decided to ignore me, until he comes along.
Reader, he is very stupid. His shoes smell like seaweed and so does the hair on his arms, and he eats terrible food—tofu and sprouts and entire garlic cloves in vinegar sauces that make your eyes tear. Healthy, he says. As if any diet without blood could be healthy. Stupid. Mother likes him. This is disappointing, but she has other qualities (for example, her feet are lovely and cool and she keeps her fingernails at the exact right length for relaxing scratches and the song she sings for me is not too annoying).
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CastCast 16: Don’t Mess with the Boss Cat
Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:25:00 +0000
Author: Nikki Knight Narrator: Dave Robison Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
This story is a CatsCast original.
Don’t Mess with The Boss Cat
A Vermont Radio Story
by Nikki Knight
I didn’t want to become the Boss Cat at some radio station in the middle of nowhere, and I definitely didn’t want to have to kill some fool.
But you mess with my family, you mess with me.
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Thu, 04 May 2023 04:03:00 +0000
Author: Sheryl R. Hayes Narrator: Alethea Kontis Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
The Tenth Life
by Sheryl R. Hayes
I sit curled on my favorite pillow. My fluffy tail is tucked over my nose so I form a circle of perfect warmth. I am content.
My servant is out of the apartment she keeps for me. Something has been wrong with her lately. She looks at my pillow and bursts into tears. My attempts at comforting her by winding between her ankles and bumping my head against her shoulder have been ignored. But during the last few days, she's changed. She's been happier. There was a new set of food and water dishes decorated with black paw prints on gleaming white ceramic. Balls festooned with feathers, plush mice, and crinkle foil balls lay scattered on the floor. There is a brand-new litter box filled with this strange, yellow, plant-smelling litter instead of the clay I prefer.
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CastCast 14 Preview: A Feline Familiar by Rayne Hall
Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:22:00 +0000
April, 2023. Author: Rayne Hall Narrator: Sandy Parsons Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
A Feline Familiar
By Rayne Hall
November wind rattles the windows and rain gusts against the panes. The cats have withdrawn to the kennel's heated indoor section and curled up in their cosy donut beds. Some doze with heads on paws, others watch my fingers dance across the keyboard, ears tilted forward as they listen to the rhythmic clack-clack-clack.
Several stare intently at the door, waiting.
They seem to know it's a Saturday, the day when the Feline Familiars sanctuary opens its doors, and potential adopters drop in, wizards in search of a magickal assistant and pet.
The first arrival, alas, has not come to adopt one of my charges. She places a cat carrier on the rickety table by the door, shakes the raindrops from her purple mane and juts her chin. "Ms Landen, this cat is no good."
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CatsCast 13: A Routine Vet Visit
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:29:00 +0000
Author: Anya Ow Narrator: Ren Shin Hsieh Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
A Routine Vet Visit
by Anya Ow
“Murder! Arson! Kidnapping! Help! I’m being oppressed!”
As a passing jogger slowed down and cast a suspicious look in their direction, Yunfeng dug her thumbnail into her index finger, drawing blood and pressing another droplet onto the yellow talisman she held in her palm. The jogger blinked and sped up, disappearing around the prominent ‘Cat Specialists – Feline-only Vet Clinic’ sign on the corner of the block.
“Baobao, please,” Yunfeng muttered.
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CatsCast 12: Mandy and Lulu Welcome Walter by S. M. Hallow
Sat, 04 Feb 2023 05:03:00 +0000
Author: S. M. Hallow Narrator: Tatiana Grey Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
Mandy and Lulu Welcome Walter
by S. M. Hallow
Just for the record, I was very clear. I was literally like, Lulu, I will become your vampire bride on one condition, and she got down on her knees--you know how she is--and she was like, Name the price I must pay for your love. It was super cute, actually--she was so eager for me to finally say yes that she would have agreed to anything, and looking back I totally could have milked that. Like, I could have told her I would only move into her Edgar Allan Poe murder-mansion if we could start our own multi-level marketing scented soap scheme, and she would have been totally on board even though she doesn’t know what any of those words mean. Anyway, my one condition was simple. I was like, Lulu, I will become your vampire bride as long as you promise me we never get a cat, and she started laughing, and she was like, That is all? You make marriage easy.
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Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:29:00 +0000
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Laura Pearlman (editor, CatsCast)
Eleanor R. Wood & Shingai Njeri Kagunda (PodCastle Editors)
Audio Production: Wilson Fowlie and Dave Robison
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CatsCast 11 Preview: Headspace by Beth Cato
Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:45:00 +0000
Author: Beth Cato
Narrator: Valerie Valdes
Host: Laura Pearlman
Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie
This story originally appeared in the Cats in Space anthology, 2015.
Headspace
by Beth Cato
Something was alive in the crawlspace above aft berthing, and damn it all, it was Akiko's job to slither up there and clear it out.
Desperate times called for desperate measures. In this case, illegal drugs.
With fumbling fingers, she unwrapped a tranq patch and slapped it on beneath the waistband of her jumpsuit. She braced herself against the wall for a long moment, breathing through the terror that came at the very thought of that narrow tunnel.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, she got by just fine. Haulers like the Tolleson had nice, wide hallways. Her crew berth was as large or larger than what she'd get in some residential stack down in Kyoto. Enviro duty meant sys-monitoring most days, and filters could be changed through hall or room access.
Then the one percent moments came along and slapped her upside the head.
Her heart rate slowed as the tranq did its thing. The overwhelming sense of doom diminished. Thank God that whoever busted into her room last week and stole half her stuff missed the tranqs hidden beneath a floor panel.
She stared up the ladder to the hatch in the ceiling. "Let's do this."
The work chit had described several passengers' complaints of moving noises in the ceiling. Akiko had her suspicions. The ship's last hop involved the transport of about fifty small animals for a colony on Capulet. The critters had been too temperature sensitive for the freight locker, so they'd been given a berth of their own. If anything had been flagged as missing, it wasn't Akiko's place to know.
The air shaft was about a meter in diameter—big enough that she could pivot around if necessary instead of backing up. Even blissed-out, she took comfort in that wiggle room. Akiko tapped her comm. Lights flicked on along the length of the tunnel. She squinted.
Something moved at the far end.
Her tools clanked against the tunnel as she crawled along, her knees tapping hollow. The thing came towards her.
That's when she realized how incredibly stupid she'd been. She'd been so freaked out about the tunnel, she hadn't thought about what might be in there. Any creature going to a colony world likely possessed some genetic modifications, whether to cope with the environment, boost agriculture, or poison intruders.
The creature entered the light.
"Damn," Akiko muttered.
The ginger kitten had an odd, ambling gait that showed the sharp jut of its hips. God, the thing was half dead, and way too small. A runt, maybe, or just plain wasting away. Its mouth opened in a silent meow. A stubby tail stood upright as a flagpole.
CatsCast 10: The Stray by Christina Westcott
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 05:05:00 +0000
December, 2022. Author: Christina Westcott Narrator: Dom Rabrun
The Stray is a CatsCast original.
Content Note: There are scenes of violence between humans, a dog, and a cat.
As a kitten, my mam told me a cat could squeeze through any hole he could get his head in, but I hadn’t accounted for my body armor. No cat worth his whiskers would travel north into the wilds of Georgia without that extra protection from wolves and feral humans. I tried to back out of the tangle of briers, but a stick snagged under my harness, halting my progress.
I flung my weight against the brush, branches cracking and armor jingling, but froze as a breeze carried the scent of feral humans to me. With my dark fur, they wouldn’t notice me in the shadows—not unless they had a dog.
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Laura Pearlman (Host), Hannah Cox Peralta (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production) Visit us at: https://escapeartists.net/catscast/ Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International 4.0 license.
CatsCast 9 Preview: The Kipnibbles Singularity
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:05:00 +0000
CatsCast 8: Love Tokens by Constance Fay
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:05:00 +0000
Halloween 2022. Author: Constance Fay Narrator: Tatiana Gray Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
Love Tokens is a CatsCast original.
CatsCast 0007: Four Stories About … Cats?
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:05:00 +0000
Four short stories, each one stranger than the last.
"Lilly", by Melissa Mead. Originally published in "A Quiet Shelter There".
"What Color Is a Cat by Moonlight?" by Bo Balder. A CatsCast original.
"Your Lives of Uncertain Number" by Laura Blackwell. A CatsCast original.
"Ruby Could Be a Cat" by Alexandra Grunberg. A CatsCast original.
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CatsCast 6 preview: Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality]
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 04:30:23 +0000
Rati Mehrotra (Author), Laura Pearlman (Host), Emily Compton (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production)
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Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:03:39 +0000
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:02:05 +0000
Laura Pearlman (Host), Kat Day (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production)
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CatsCast 3: What Cats (and Dragons) Do
Sat, 04 Jun 2022 04:01:00 +0000
Author: KT Bryski
Narrator: Rish Outfield
Host: Laura Pearlman
Cat-of-the-month photograph: Callie, by Kimberley and Jeremiah Daly
Podcast cover art: Matt Dovey
Audio production: Wilson Fowlie
What Cats (and Dragons) Do is a CatsCast original.
Far away in the hill country, there lived a small black cat. Though people enough lived in a nearby town, he belonged only to himself. Sometimes he climbed the town’s old stone walls and prowled its old stone lanes, for he was very fond of sunny window ledges and fresh milk.
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CatsCast 2 preview: Tin Opener
Wed, 04 May 2022 03:30:18 +0000
Charlotte Platt (Author), Wilson Fowlie (Narrator), Bill Shields (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production).
They killed my tin opener. The humans called her Margaret, but what do humans know? She was my tin opener.
More than that, she was a witch, and a good one. A crone for the village, a sharp mind, and a healer. She knew the best way to mend broken bones, and how to scratch my ears so that I purred deep and long in her lap. I liked her, and they killed her. A poor choice.
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CatsCast 1: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:30:00 +0000
Author: Jennifer Hudak
Narrator: Alethea Kontis
Host: Laura Pearlman
Cat-of-the-month photograph: Steve Gatlin
Podcast cover art: Matt Dovey
Audio production: Wilson Fowlie
Laurie stands in front of a door. It’s old but solid, as many old things are. Whatever paint once covered it has long since worn away, and the wood beneath is striped, and furred with splinters. It is her very first door, of her very first day, of her very first job.
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Wed, 23 Mar 2022 06:01:28 +0000
CatsCast debuts April 1! Here's a preview of Season 1, Episode 1, featuring The Cat Lady and the Petitioner by Jennifer Hudak, read by Alethea Kontis. If you support the Escape Artists Patreon at the "Premium Content" level, you can hear every episode on the EA Premium Content feed. Some episodes will also be available on the CatsCast public feed. Visit us at: https://escapeartists.net/catscast/ CatsCast is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International 4.0 license.
From the Archives: CatsCast 341 (April Fools 2021) - Bargain by Sarah Gailey
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 01:51:28 +0000
This is the 341st episode of the imaginary version of CatsCast. It ran on all the Escape Artists podcasts on April 1, 2021. so if you were listening to any of them at the time, you may have heard this one already.
Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:32:46 +0000
This is the 289th episode of a long-running imaginary podcast called CatsCast. It ran on all the Escape Artists podcasts on April 1, 2020, so if you were listening to any of them at the time, you may have heard this one already. We also announced that one of our (imaginary) 2019 episodes won an award:
“The Cats That Fall on You From Nowhere” was awarded the American Surrealist Society’s coveted Invisible Candle award for “reminding everyone of that Magritte painting with all the men in bowler hats, because he did more than just that one with the pipe, you know”.