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Aaron: It’s the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader and author for today’s story. Andrew Kozma brings us “Exit Here” from Reckoning 3. This one’s a story of a small group of desperately underfunded researchers battling . . .
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Aaron: Welcome once again to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning and the reader for today’s story. Hope you’re having a good one. Our story today is Reckoning 7’s “The Air Will Catch Us” by Rajiv Moté. As a flash fiction piece, it’s a short listen. . . .
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Aaron: It’s time once again for the Reckoning Press Podcast! I’m Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and this story’s audio producer—but our reader is Anna Pele. Today we have Nadine Aurora Tabing’s wonderul “The Bright in the Gyre” from Reckoning 7. This one’s got . . .
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We’re here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, Reckoning’s new audio editor, the reader and producer for today’s story. How’s it going, everyone? This time we have Ellis Nye’s “The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest” as featured in Reckoning . . .
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Aaron: You’re listening to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, editor for Reckoning’s audio in general and this story in particular. Glad to be recording another one of these! Today, listeners, we have Monica Wendel’s “A Shape that Has No Name” from Reckoning 8. In this . . .
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Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I’m Aaron Kling, Reckoning‘s new audio editor. I’m also the reader and audio producer for this story. Hi there. Hello! Today, listeners, we have David Holloway’s “The Battle for Florida” from Reckoning 8. Holloway illustrates the beautiful tragedy . . .
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Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast! It’s me, your erstwhile host and publisher, Michael J. DeLuca. We’ve had some exciting news here, which, in that frustrating way that seems unique to publishing, I don’t feel at liberty to share with you yet. But please check back in a month?
In the meantime, . . .
My granddaughter Nisha bounces on the tips of her toes, with flutter kicks in between, a hummingbird barely touching the sidewalk. I adjust the rebreather plugged into my nostrils and push myself forward. Keeping up with her has gotten harder, not just because of my age. Walking is different now. The air resists my habitual gait. Little hops lift me into the thickened . . .
We are not doing anything about it because we have to help our parents pay their mortgage. We are not doing anything about it because the children want dogs to play with. We are not doing anything about it because I cannot stop thinking about a girl I sat and watched at a coffee shop six subway stops away. We are not doing anything because who believes that stuff anyway? . . .
Along the shoreline, the mineral trees have risen from the sea like jeweled hands reaching for the sky. Further out, long branches of coral have joined above the waves, spiraling together into bright red and blue and green—fingers crossed for some imagined future.
Today is the day the world will come. From the window, she can see the media unloading cameras, . . .