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 pa…

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 b…

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 ver…

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…

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. …

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 …

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 Mag…

Description 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 whi…

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 whi…

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 an…

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 …

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 lat…

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…

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 …

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 …

Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner (publishers) Laura Pearlman (editor, CatsCast) Eleanor R. Wood & Shingai Njeri Kagunda (PodCastle Editors) Audio Production: Wilson Fowlie and Dave Robison Visit us at escapeartists.net Support us at: patreon.com/eapodcasts or at our website. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativ…

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 despe…

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 nor…

Author: Andrea M. Pawley Narrator: Wilson Fowlie Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie The Kipnibbles Singularity originally appeared in Electric Spec. The Kipnibbles Singularity by Andrea M. Pawley We see their feet first. Some technician pointed our eyes to the ground long before we woke in our too-small confines. Three female humans…

Halloween 2022. Author: Constance Fay Narrator: Tatiana Gray Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison Love Tokens is a CatsCast original. Content note: This story includes a little light dismemberment. It's fine. Love Tokens by Constance Fay The cat in my living room has a human finger in her mouth and love in her eyes. This is disturbingl…

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. Read the fu…

Rati Mehrotra (Author), Laura Pearlman (Host), Emily Compton (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production) Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality by Rati Mehrotra The tree has many names, in many languages: Yggdrasil, Kalpavriksha, Jian-Mu, Ashvattha. It stands at the nexus of worlds, dark matter…

August 2022. Author: Marshall J Moore Narrator: S. Kay Nash Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Wilson Fowlie Daisies is a CatsCast original. Content Notes: Grief is a major theme of this story. The story also depicts the peaceful death of a beloved cat. Daisies by Marshall J Moore I believe I was the only person on Earth who stayed outdoors on th…

Laura Pearlman (Host), Kat Day (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production) 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 …

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, …

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, an…

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 furre…

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. …

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.By Escape Artists, Inc.

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 aw…

It’s September 1, 2019 the year is almost over companies need to meet their supplier diversity goals. Denise Williams “The Procurement Queen” [email protected] #procurementqueen #procurement #supplierdiversity

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