Reckoning Press Podcast

Reckoning Press Podcast

creative writing on environmental justice

Episodes

Podcast Episode 48: SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER

January 9, 2026 • 34 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and listeners, if you're feeling cold, this episode will warm you right up. It's "SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER", from Reckoning 7, written and read by T.K. Rex. I really enjoyed "SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN". Before it's a story about climate, it's a story about building interspecies bridges...
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Podcast Episode 47: It’s in the Blood

December 9, 2025 • 25 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Whenever and wherever you are, get hydrated and get hopeful, because it's the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to bring you another episode. Hope you're having a good one, because today we have "It's In the Blood" from Reckoning 8, written by Susan Kaye Quinn and read by Anna Pele. This is a story...
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Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City

October 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And today we have "What it Means to Love a City", proudly featured in Reckoning 7, written by Morris Hinkle and read by Andrew Kozma. Consider a city, those mosaic aggregates of homes, industries, and the systems needed to support them. I'm sure you've...
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Podcast Episode 45: Within the Seed Lives the Fruit

August 18, 2025 • 53 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And for today's podcast, we have "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit", from Reckoning 8, by Leah Andelsmith. This is a story about a family living and caring for their loaned land. But make no mistake: this is a decades-long fight for survival that sees our cast twine round a territory that, in time...
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Podcast Episode 44: We Will Not Dream of Corals

July 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: We're here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, bringing you a story written by Mario Coelho, and read by Reckoning's Bernie Jean Schibeling. "We Will Not Dream of Corals" is, at its core, revenge by way of a wish. Coral, a creature which has carried the brunt of climate change for decades, a...
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Podcast Episode 43: The Piano Player Has Eight Arms

June 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Hey there, listeners. It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and today we're hearing "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" from Reckoning 9, written and read by Idé Hennessy. What's there to do four thousand meters below the surface of the sea? If you're thinking, "hit a cocktail lounge", then buddy, y...
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Podcast Episode 42: Exit Here

May 20, 2025 • 16 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader and author for today's story. Andrew Kozma brings us "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3. This one's a story of a small group of desperately underfunded researchers battling the ecological collapse of a lake made all the worse by eariler a...
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Podcast Episode 41: The Air Will Catch Us

April 21, 2025 • 8 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome once again to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning and the reader for today's story. Hope you're having a good one. Our story today is Reckoning 7's "The Air Will Catch Us" by Rajiv Moté. As a flash fiction piece, it's a short listen. But Moté has filled every line with gentle worldbuilding, histo...
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Podcast Episode 40: The Bright in the Gyre

March 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's time once again for the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and this story's audio producer—but our reader is Anna Pele. Today we have Nadine Aurora Tabing's wonderul "The Bright in the Gyre" from Reckoning 7. This one's got a favorite theme of mine: becoming. Our protagonist races against terminal ill...
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Podcast Episode 39: A Predatory Transience

February 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Bernie: Hello again, Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Bernie Jean Schiebeling, the reader for this episode, with Aaron Kling as producer. Today we're sharing C.G. Aubrey's "A Predatory Transience" from Reckoning 7. What I admire most about this piece is its grounding in a present moment. The rich imagery that C.G. brings to the landscapes of the South...
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