Podcast Episode 23: Sold for Parts

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Today on the Reckoning Press podcast we have Catherine Rockwood reading NIB’s quiet flash story “Sold for Parts”, about surviving, coping, in a world of loss. This piece seems particularly relevant here in the U.S., after a series of Supreme Court decisions that signals a precipitous erosion of rights, hope for safety and well-being and progress towards justice of all kinds, for everyone.

I hope listening to it provides you some solace, a little peace.

In case you haven’t heard, we’ve just announced a new submission call for a special issue about bodily autonomy and environmental justice, Our Beautiful Reward, edited by none other than Catherine Rockwood. To read that call and submit, you can go to reckoning.press/submit.

We’re also running our first-ever fundraiser, with the goal of raising payrates for writers, staff, and podcast readers, potentially producing a print edition of Catherine’s special issue featuring cover art by Mona Robles, and including cool rewards like pins, t-shirts, personal story critiques from some of our editors past and present, and other weirder fun stuff. Go to reckoning.press/support-us for details.

Thank you for listening!

[Bios below.]

“Sold for Parts” by NIB

Author: NIB

NIB is a nonbinary speculative fiction writer with an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. In their spare time, they co-curate Two Hour Transport, a science fiction and fantasy reading series based in Seattle, that welcomes SF/F writers from around the world. Read more about Two Hour Transport at twohourtransport.wordpress.com or on Facebook at facebook.com/twohourtransport.


Their flash fiction story “Strange Music” was published by Fireside in April of 2021. You can follow them on Twitter @nic_nib.

Author: Catherine Rockwood

Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts with her family. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in HAD, Stone Circle Review, Moist Poetry Journal, Psaltery & Lyre, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and elsewhere. Catherine’s poetry chapbooks, Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion, and And We Are Far From Shore: Poems For Our Flag Means Death, are available from the Ethel Zine Press.   

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