CatsCast
CatsCast publishes fun speculative cat stories. We hope that each story leaves its cat-loving listeners a little happier -- or at least amused or hopeful -- after listening than they were before.
Episodes
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 with my family, you mess with me.
Read the rest on Patreon.
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 lately. She looks at my pillow and bursts into tears. My attempts at comforting her by w...
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 The cats have withdrawn to the kennel's heated indoor section and curled up in their cosy donut beds.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 my fingers dance across the keyboard, ears tilted forward as they listen to the rhyt...
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 onto the yellow talisman she held in her palm. The jogger blinked and sped up, disapp...
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 pay for your love. It was super cute, actually--she was so eager for me to fin...
Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner (publishers)
Laura Pearlman (editor, CatsCast)
Eleanor R. Wood & Shingai Njeri Kagunda (PodCastle Editors)
Audio Production: Wilson Fowlie and Dave Robison
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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 desperate measures...
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 north into the wilds of Georgia without that extra protection from wolves and feral huma...
Halloween 2022. Author: Constance Fay Narrator: Tatiana Gray Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison
Love Tokens is a CatsCast original.
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 full text on Patreon.
Rati Mehrotra (Author), Laura Pearlman (Host), Emily Compton (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production)
Laura Pearlman (Host), Kat Day (Front cover photograph), Matt Dovey (Back cover art), Dave Robison (Audio production)
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, he belonged only to himself. Sometimes he climbed the town’s old stone walls and prow...
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, and a healer. She knew the best way to mend broken bones, and how to scratch my ears so...
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 furred with splinters. It is her very first door, of her very first day, of her very first...
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.
“The Cats That Fall on You From Nowhere” was awarded the American Surrealist Society’s coveted Invisible Candle award fo...
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