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March 13, 2021
Ep 454 Heart’s Thief by Emily L. Byrne
This month’s patron-funded story is “Heart’s Thief” by Emily L. Byrne, narrated by Lauren B. Harris.
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Ashara slipped through the window, pulling her hook and rope in behind her. The gesture came so easily it was as if she hadn’t just had to climb the wall and pick the lock. All around her, the room was still and dark as an abyss and the night breeze sent a light shiver over her exposed arms. She wondered why she sensed no guards, no magical alarms.
After all, she had come for the Heart of El Kyraz, a ruby big as a man’s fist. It was said that the stone had great powers if one had the strength to command it. Surely a gem merchant of Sher Kalia’s status would at least have mortal guards to protect such a jewel. Rumor held that she’d had one of the most famous wizards in the city as her lover. She’d have asked for wards, have asked him to send the cold blue light of his power around her most cherished possessions. The price of such protection would have been nothing more than pillow talk to someone as wealthy as Kalia.
February 20, 2021
Ep 453 My Heart Beats Backwards by Neil James Hudson
This month’s patron-funded story is “My Heart Beats Backwards” by Neil James Hudson, narrated by Nobilis Reed.
I still hadn’t mastered walking backwards. It looked simple, but after a short while became exhausting. Nonetheless, it was an essential skill if I were to pass as normal.
I could manage speech. It had been difficult at first, but with the help of a radio and tape recorder I’d been able to work out which sounds were which when reversed–it wasn’t always obvious. Once I’d worked out how to listen backwards and understand what was being said, I found that I could pronounce the syllables in reverse myself, and be understood–although I preferred to keep conversations short, as I could never predict what had just been said.
I looked around me. It still looked strange: an entire city in reverse, walking backwards while looking forwards but somehow never colliding. It was difficult to remember that I was the odd one out: that everyone else lived normally, but I had gone into reverse gear.
I sighed, and set off again, slower than everyone else. I tried to avoid them, but I simply wasn’t fluent. I would hear tuts and grunts, warnings that I was about to bump into someone.
Behind me I heard sobbing. I would have liked to stop and help, but it was impossible when you lived as I did. I heard a woman’s voice: it was difficult to translate it through the tears, but I realised she was saying, “you don’t even know you’re leaving!”
I ignored her. She seemed to be walking backwards in the same direction as me, so we were unlikely to collide.
“You don’t even know you’re leaving!” she shouted again. And then the single word, “no!”
And then I felt her grab my arm, and realised that I was in trouble. I turned to face her.
“You don’t even know who I am!” she said.
January 16, 2021
Ep 452 Extra Credit by Nyla Lustre
This month’s patron-funded story comes to us from Nyla Lustre, and is read for us by Opoponax of the Flash Pulp podcast.
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Macy took one of the flyers pinned to the bulletin board outside the psychology lab and carefully tucked it into her canvas backpack. She wasn’t doing as well as she had hoped in her abnormal psychology class and could use both the extra points and extra cash. She’d never had Dr. Farough for any of her classes, but she’d heard that he was an eccentric teacher.
After her last class of the day, she headed over to the faculty building and wound her way down an ancient staircase to the basement level. The dim lighting overhead made the corridor look extra creepy. She only saw one light on, spilling through a half opened door. Crossing her fingers that she hadn’t made the journey for nothing, she crept up to the door. Dr. Farough was on the phone, whispering.
“I know I said it’d be ready next month, but more testing is needed,” he said, nervously tapping his fingers against his desk. As if sensing her presence, he turned to the door and motioned that she sit in an uncomfortable lumpy chair on the other side of his scarred wooden desk.
December 12, 2020
Ep 451 Hard Sci Fi by S Wolf
This month’s patron-funded story is “Hard Sci Fi” by S. Wolf, read by Nobilis Reed.
They say you’re not a real spaceman until you’ve fucked a guy in zero-g.
Easy enough to screw in the habitation pod with centrifugal force plus a hunk keeping you pinned to the bed and panting. But leave the pod and things get much more difficult. For every action, an opposite reaction. For each thrust, you will deflect backwards, and coast until you smash into something. By the time you’ve slowed down, any number of things could happen. You could shatter a limb. Or spin out into space. Or hit the wrong bulkhead and detonate a fuel tank. Or lose your boner. Only a true astronaut can fuck while calculating Newtonian physics.
Technically, I was still a cadet when Sunglow suggested we leave the habitation pylon for some fun. But Sunglow had been an starfarer for twenty standard years and if he said you were ready, that was enough for anyone.
November 21, 2020
Ep 450 Coyote and the Principles of Things by Piper
This month’s Patreon-funded story is “Coyote and the Principles of Things” by Piper, read by Jhada Addams.
October 17, 2020
Ep 449 Kintsugi by M Christian
October’s patron-funded story is “Kintsugi” by M. Christian. This BDSM-flavored bisexual social science fiction story is read by Yours Truly, Nobilis Reed.
To help pay the authors and voices that create these stories, visit patreon.com/nobilis.
October 3, 2020
Ep 448 Chapter One of Monster Whisperer Third Party
This extra episode is chapter one of Monster Whisperer: Third Party, the third book in my Monster Whisperer series.
This novel is going out as bonus content for supporters of the Nobilis Erotica Patreon campaign.
September 19, 2020
Ep 447 A Certain Tantarii by Andra Dill
This month’s patron-funded story is “A Certain Tantarii” by Andra Dill, narrated by Scottie Calif.
Starting this month, supporters of the Patreon campaign will be getting chapters of the third book in my Monster Whisperer series, “Monster Whisperer Third Class”
August 29, 2020
Ep 446 In the Arms of the Deep by Nobilis Reed
This month’s story is a “command performance” story funded by patron Arioch Morningstar, who signed up on the $100 level for a story written to his specifications. If you want a story like this, go to the Nobilis Erotica Patreon campaign. Or if that’s a bit pricey for you, there are plenty of options for your budget.
July 25, 2020
Ep 445 Accursed by Lynne Sargent
This month’s patron-funded story is “Accursed” by Lynne Sargent, read by Lauren Harris.
It finally happens one night. As she’s always been told it would. Sure, she thought that it had happened before- but she was mistaken.
Haven’t we all been?
But no, this time it happens.
They are in bed. It is a work night, and she is riding him again. They try to rotate positions, for many reasons: excitement, change, because the magazine told them to so they feel like they should. It doesn’t much matter to her, though; Mostly they all feel the same. But not this time. This time the thunder cracks outside and she feels herself crack with it.
he is conjoined with him one moment; the next she is sound. And now she knows what it is supposed to feel like.
As it reverberates through her body she keeps on plodding, rolling her hips over the valley between his thighs until his face contorts the same way she supposes hers must have. How funny, that he did not notice. That he still does not notice, but of course he is asleep before she has even dismounted.
He snores, but that night it is the echoes of the thunder that she hears in her dreams.
