“Yeah.” His head bobbed on his neck. “I figured you might say that. It makes a lot of sense. I’m not sure why I need to do this alone. I just feel it somehow, you know? Deep down?”
“Hey,” she said. “Stick with me. I busted you out of hell. There’s nothing we can’t do so long as we’re together.”
She tried to set her hand on his shoulder, but her fingers passed right through him.
When he looked up at her his eyes were clear and pale as ice.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
And then he was gone.
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Writer Team
Max Gladstone (lead writer) has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia, drunk almond milk with monks on Wudang Shan, and wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat. Max is also the author of the Craft Sequence of books about undead gods and skeletal law wizards—Full Fathom Five, Three Parts Dead, Two Serpents Rise, with Last First Snow.
Max fools everyone by actually writing novels in the coffee shops of Davis Square in Somerville, MA. His dreams are much nicer than you’d expect.
Brian Francis Slattery is the author of Spaceman Blues, Liberation, Lost Everything, and The Family Hightower. Lost Everything won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012. He’s the arts and culture editor for the New Haven Independent, an editor for the New Haven Review, and a freelance editor for a few not-so-secret public policy think tanks. He also plays music constantly with a few different groups in several different genres.
He lives with his family just outside of New Haven CT, and admits that elevation above sea level was one of the factors he took into account. For one week out of every year, he enjoys living completely without electricity.
Mur Lafferty is the author of The Shambling Guides series from Orbit, including The Shambling Guide to New York City and Ghost Train to New Orleans. She has been a podcaster for more than ten years, running award-winning shows such as I Should Be Writing and novellas published via podcast. She has written for RPGs, video games, and short animation. She lives in Durham, NC, where she attends Durham Bulls baseball games and regularly pets two dogs. Her family regrets her Dragon Age addiction and wishes she would get help.
Margaret lives in Los Angeles, CA, where she taunts the rest of the writing team with local weather reports and waits for the earthquake that will finally turn Burbank into oceanfront property.
Table of Contents
Episode 9: Ancient Wonders Margaret Dunlap
Episode 10: Shore Leave Mur Lafferty
Episode 11: Codex Umbra Max Gladstone
Episode 12: Puppets By Brian Francis Slattery
Episode 13: Keeping Friends Close By Mur Lafferty
Episode 14: An Excellent Day for an Exorcism by Brian Francis Slattery
Episode 15: Things Lost by Margaret Dunlap
Episode 16: Siege By Max Gladstone
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