It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
You may recognize Wil Wheaton's name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985's timeless classic, Stand By Me. You may recognize his voice from one of the many audio books he's narrated, including number one New York Times bestseller, Ready Player One, John Scalzi's award-winning Collapsing Empire Trilogy, or even his own bestselling memoir, Still Just A Geek. Beginning on March 26th, Wil brings you It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, a weekly audiobook podcast, featuring stories that Wil loves, pulled from the pages of Uncanny, Lightspeed, On Spec, and others. You're going to meet authors you don't yet know you love, including some who are being narrated for the very first time. Listeners will travel through time, meet some gods, watch people fall in and out of love, and more, brought to life by Wil's remarkable narrative voice.
Episodes
May 6, 2026 • 47 mins
"Phoenix Tile" by Guan Un, narrated by Wil
Original Publication Credit: Khoreo (including audio version): https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/phoenix-tile/
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://guanun.com/
It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thoma...
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April 29, 2026 • 67 mins
"To Carry You Inside You" by Tia Tashiro, narrated by Wil
Today, we are going to visit a future where child actors are still exploited, still used up and discarded, facing an adult life without purpose, that they were never prepared for, because nobody cared what happened to them past an arbitrary age.We will meet a young woman who is doing her best to assemble the pieces of a stolen childhood into a fulfilling adult life. It isn'...
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April 22, 2026 • 30 mins
"Bird-Girl Builds a Machine" by Hannah Yang, narrated by Wil
Today, we have a beautiful story for you that is all about love, specifically the kind of love we have for our children. And when we're finished, I think you'll want to hug your kids, or reach out and tell them you love them. I know that I did.
This is: Bird Girl Builds A Machine.
Original Publication Credit: Clarkesworld Magazine
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April 15, 2026 • 33 mins
"Heathman Ldg" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil
A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheerfully playing for an audience of none. A paper ticket in your hand, in an airport departure lounge that hasn't seen a passenger in fifty years, the board still updating flight information, with whirling letters. The front desk in the empty hotel lobby, an abandoned cigarette burn...
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April 8, 2026 • 54 mins
"The Nine Scents of Sorrow" by Jordan Taylor, narrated by Wil
This week's story features one of history's memorable, real-life villains, and while this isn't her story, directly, when she tells it, she is the hero, and so very, very justified. And as much as I hate it, I gotta tell you that she isn't wrong.
Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine Issue 35, July 2020
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://jo...
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April 1, 2026 • 52 mins
"The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han" by Maria Dong, narrated by Wil
As long as we've existed, humans have told each other stories to understand and interpret the world around us. There are as many different myths about the sun and the moon as there are different cultures and mythmakers, in some places, even the wind gets a name and a backstory from the ancient artists who sought to understand our natural world.I've always been d...
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March 25, 2026 • 62 mins
“End of Play” by Chelsea Sutton, narrated by Wil
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.chelseasutton.com/
To purchase The Body audiobook, please click here: https://bit.ly/3NZd3DT
Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from The Body by Stephen King, read by Wil Wheaton. Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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March 18, 2026 • 67 mins
"SuperMAX" by Daniel H. Wilson, narrated by Wil
One of the biggest lies set into the foundation of America is that we are the land of the free, a nation of fair and impartially adjudicated laws that seeks not to punish, but to rehabilitate, the almost two million of our citizens we imprison, some of them in conditions so horiffic, they shock the conscience.Let's imagine a future together, one in which crime and punishment are hand...
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March 11, 2026 • 42 mins
"Notes From a Pyre" by Amal Singh, narrated by Wil
In just a moment, I will take you to the far future, where we will meet a dead man who spent his life traveling the universe, chronicling the grieving and funerary practices of extra-terrestrial species. It turns out that death, and grief, and loss, aren't just human conditions; they are literally universal experiences. His grandson, no stranger to his own grief and loss, has pick...
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March 4, 2026 • 38 mins
“The God of Minor Troubles” by Megan Chee, narrated by Wil
This is a re-release from season one of the podcast. We have also added the original Coda from Wil to the back of the episode, which is a weekly Patreon exclusive for every episode.
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://meganchee.carrd.co/
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February 25, 2026 • 45 mins
"Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe" by Beston Barnett, narrated by Wil
Original Publication Credit: Nov 2023 issue of Strange Horizons
It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift ...
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February 18, 2026 • 31 mins
"The Last Lucid Day" by Dominique Dickey, narrated by Wil
This week's story hits extremely close to home for me. It's about a son,and the father who let him down. It's about the desperate search for aconnection, before The Last Lucid Day.
Original Publication Credit: The story was simultaneously published by Lightspeed and io9; it's also been reprinted in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, edited by Michael Kelly.
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February 11, 2026 • 58 mins
"Lily, The Immortal" by Kylie Lee Baker, narrated by Wil
In the age of parasocial relationships and Influencer Culture, it's alltoo easy to convince ourselves that we know someone we've never met,when what we actually know is the carefully curated content they chooseto share. The connection we feel to that content is real and it's valid,but that's where the relationship really ought to end. See, behind everypublic face, there is a...
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February 4, 2026 • 31 mins
"We Will Weather One Another Somehow" by Kristina Ten, narrated by Wil
There are billions of people on planet earth, a number so huge, only afew of us can truly grasp its enormity. I am not one of those people,but I am one who beat the odds and found my person, the one in a billionchance for a perfect match. We have built an incredible life together,that I am grateful for every single day.When two people love each other the way we...
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January 28, 2026 • 47 mins
"Magnificent Maurice, or the Flowers of Immortality" by Rati Mehrotra, narrated by Wil
Original Publication Credit: Lightspeed Magazine, November 2020 / Previous audio version: Audio reprint in CatsCast episode 6, September 2022
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://ratiwrites.com/
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January 21, 2026 • 43 mins
"Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt, narrated by Wil
Aesop, of the Fables, wrote that no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. If you've listened to me for any amount of time, you know how committed I am to choosing kindness, celebrating kindness, and encouraging kindness in others.
Today's Storytime is all about kindness with a capital K. It's also about Family with a capital F. Now, to me, Family are the people who love you n...
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January 14, 2026 • 54 mins
"The Skin of a Teenage Boy is Not Alive" by Senaa Ahmad, narrated by Wil
Original Publication Credit: Nightmare Magazine in Aug 2019, with an accompanying audio version read by Stefan Rudnicki. Also reprinted in the 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar (Hingston and Olsen).
To learn more about the author, please visit: https://senaa-ahmad.com/
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January 7, 2026 • 63 mins
“The Other Side of Mictlān” by M.M. Olivas, narrated by Wil
Hi, I'm Wil and it's Storytime.
I have an interesting life. I get create art and share it with a loyal
audience. I get to travel all over the world and meet people from every
culture and background imaginable. I frequently have the privilege of
speaking to large groups of people about the value of kindness,
inspiring them to be the change we all wish to see in the world...
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December 17, 2025 • 49 mins
“The Coffin Maker” by AnaMaria Curtis, narrated by Wil
I will never understand the reckless inaction humanity seems to have chosen in the face of catastrophic climate change. Last time I looked, Earth was the only planet we have, and taking care of her should probably land real close to the top spot on our species' to do list.
Catastrophic Climate Change is scary, it's real, and it's dangerously close to inevitable because it is...
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December 10, 2025 • 31 mins
“A Cure for Solastalgia” by E.M. Linden, narrated by Wil
When we leave home for the first time, and enter the so-called Real World, we become responsible for so much more than our laundry, our food, and our bills. We truly become responsible for ourselves. We choose our values, we choose who we will trust to share those values, and when we come home for the first time, we will do everything we can to convince our parents that th...
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