S4E8: Work Life Balance & Your Future is Pending

Work Life Balance by Cara Mast, Read by Tonia Ransom Amerie receives an email at work that Return-to-Work is being mandated for her office. This is a problem, as she has been secretly living in her office for the last nine months because she can't afford both rent and her out of pocket payments for her curse-based illness. As a retired tall-ship sailor, a failed academic, and a reluctant finance professional, Cara Mast gets stopped constantly in New York City and asked for directions. Cara spends their free time drinking coffee, binging words, and yelling about the Philadelphia Eagles in bars they’ve thankfully not yet been kicked out of. Your Future Life is Pending by Matthew Kressel, read by Tonia Ransom Technician Martha feeds stray dogs in her back alley, tends her sick father, and revives the unconscious, rich users of hi-tech gaming "couches." The game is the reason humans never made it to Mars, so is she wrong to wreck a little havoc? Matthew Kressel is a three-time Nebula Award finalist, whose work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and has been translated into nine languages. He is the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series with Ellen Datlow in Manhattan. And he is the creator of the Moksha submissions system, in use by many of the largest SFF publishers today. His website is matthewkressel.net. Tonia Ransom is a horror writer and World Fantasy Award-winning creator of horror podcasts NIGHTLIGHT and Afflicted. Tonia has been scaring people since the second grade, when she wrote her first story based on Michael Myers. She lives in Austin, Texas. You can follow Tonia @missdefying on all the socials.

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S4E8: Work Life Balance & Your Future is Pending is an episode from Kaleidocast by Kaleidocast.

This episode is 01:04:28 long.

This episode was published on Mar 12, 2024.

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