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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Five Rules for Commuting to the Underworld” by Merrie Haskell.
• Listen to “Greeters” by Zachery Cole at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Lights” by Jack Westlake at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Machine” by M. Rickert at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “The Old Equations” by Tom Godwin at LightSpeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu at PodCastle.
• Listen to “We Go Back” by Tim Pratt at Escape Pod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Babyhead” by Aliya Whiteley at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Crucible” by Dan Rabarts at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Listen to “Emmett, Joey & The Beelz” by Ralph Sevush at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “The Landholders No Longer Carry Swords” by Patricia Russo.
• Listen to “Luna Voices on the Solar Wind” (Part 2) by Nick Wood at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Night’s Plutonian Shore” by Jack Mangan at Peculiar Occurences.
• Listen to “Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” by Jason Sanford at LightningBolt Theater.
• Listen to “The Things” by Peter Watts at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Trouble in Leafy Green Street” by Lord Dunsany at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Upon a Star” by Debbie Cowens at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Listen to “You Have Been Turned into a Zombie by a Friend” by Jeremiah Tolbert.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “41 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Edward Morris.
• Listen to “Big Inches” by Ralph Robert Moore Cast Macabre.
• Listen to “Dearest Daughter” by Kate Marshall at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Frankenstein, Frankenstein” by Will McIntosh at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Frozen Voice” by An Owomoyela at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “Greeters” by Zachery Cole at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait” by Carrie Vaughn at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Manifest Error” by Gary Cuba at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “P is for Parade, F is for Forever, C is for Crate” by Tim Pratt, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekout and Jen Reese at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” by Jason Sanford.
• Listen to “Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika” by Gord Sellar at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “Union Falls” by J. S. Breukelaar at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “We Go Back” by Tim Pratt at Escape Pod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Black Petals” (Part 3) by Michael Moorcock at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Fear of Darkness” by Christine Danse at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Listen to The Fire Of Asshurbanipal (Part 2) at the Cthulhu Podcast.
• Listen to “Gods of the North” by Robert E. Howard at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Hokkaido Green” by Aidan Doyle at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “I.C.U.” by Tim Burke at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Luna Voices on the Solar Wind” (Part 1) by Nick Wood at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” by Jason Sanford.
• Listen to “Perry Dawsey, Are You Okay?” (Part 1) by Scott Sigler.
• Listen to “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine at ClarkesWorld.
• Listen to “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone.
• Listen to “Trickster” by Mari Ness at ClarkesWorld.
• Listen to “Upon a Star” by Debbie Cowens at Wily Writers Podcast.

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Book: Darkness Rising
ISBN-13: 978-0061797026

Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: The Darkness Rising, Book 1
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Paranormal Romance /
Young Adult Fantasy
Release: April 12, 2011
Length: 368 pages (Hardcover)

Rating: F (30 / 100)

Verdict

Three hundred pages of a excruciating teen awkwardness and little-to-no plot. I can’t imagine anyone enjoying this book, even young girls who enjoy books about teen awkwardness. Darkness Rising is easily Kelley Armstrong’s dullest book to date.

Pros: It eventually ends.

Cons: Excruciatingly oblivious protagonist. Excruciating awkward teen romance. Nearly no plot development. Predictable paranormal romance plot.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Download the hilarious children’s book “Go the F**k to Sleep” by Adam Mansbach as read by Samuel L. Jackson for free from Audible.
• Listen to “Association” by Eddie Borey at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Blue and Gray & Black and Green” by Alethea Kontis at Cast Macabre.
• Listen to “The Facts Concerning…” by H.P. Lovecraft at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
• Listen to “Fertilizer” by Duncan Shields at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Giant of Malheur Park” by Maria Deira at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Hanuman’s Gift” by Helen E. H. Madden from Peculiar Occurrences.
• Listen to “The Immortality Game” by Cat Rambo at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “Just North of Nowhere” by Larry Santoro at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Memory con.” by Michael Merriam at Beam Me Up!.
• Listen to “Pinion” by Stellan Thorne at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “A Ruby in Rain” by Grant Stone at The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences.
• Listen to “Whelp” by Damon Shaw at Dunesteef.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “After October” by Ben Burgis at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer)” at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer)” at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Disarm” by Vylar Kaftan at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Memory (Pt 1) by Michael Merriam at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “The Song Of Prague” by Shane Jiraiya Cummings at Pseudopod.

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