Wild Speculation
Wild Speculation is an anthology podcast that explores the many worlds of speculative fiction through short stories.
Episodes
This new episode is much lighter than the last one. It is a YA genderbent Robin Hood story set in a cyberpunk world.
Hoodlum is the leader of a virtual gang that steals from the corporates to help people buy their way out of indentured servitude. This latest job is their biggest yet.
Radicalized is the story of two Qlarraq, the alien species that inhabits the planet to which the last remnants of humanity has fled.
One welcomes the human newcomers, wanting to help people in need, and seeing the whole thing as a wonderful opportunity for cultural exchange and advancement.
The other is filled with resentment towards the humans, because of how their presence on the planet has disrupted his life.
Conrad is a Gifted Finder, a person with the innate magic to track people and objects. As he settles down for a quiet evening of drinking, the police arrive at his door and insist that he help them with a case.
A Simple Job is a rogue fantasy story that takes place in the seedy fantasy city of Ferronthal, where everyone has an angle, and everyone has secrets.
'A Dinner With' is a fictional podcast in a dystopian future, and the host Martin Jones has landed his highest profile guest yet: Azrael, Death Personified! Join them as they eat food, talk about life, and distract you from your meaningless existence.
A Dinner With Death is the first dramatic fiction story (as opposed to a prose fiction story) on the podcast.
Check it out, and be sure to let me know what...
Samuel, the mysterious theater owner, tells his lover Harrold about his past, and about the person who helped him become what he is today.
The Proposal is Wild Speculation's first queer-centric episode. It explores queer discovery, queer desire, and vampires.
Home is Wild Speculation's first horror story! It is a slow-burn psychological horror story with an emphasis on building dread rather than scares or gore.
Mark Nelson hasn't been home since the beginning of high school, but it seems like the universe is conspiring to bring him back. But everything seems like it's too good to be true..
Season 3's premiere is an original fairytale about a girl named Enora. She has been warned her whole life about the dangers of making deals with faeries. So what does it mean when the dangerous trickster, Will of the Wisps, befriends her? Can she trust him? Or will she end up yet another victim of his cruel pranks?
Roll For Deception is a dark comedy/satire set in a Dungeons & Dragons-esque world. In it, an adventuring party and a group of villagers are so focused on lying to each other that neither stops to wonder if they are being lied to.
Orphan of Mars is a science fiction story about a girl living in a colony on Mars that essentially functions as a company town.
She must overcome layer after layer of obstacles if she is to achieve the one thing she wants more than anything: self-determination.
The Wheel of Death is a future-noir story about an over-worked, under-paid Department of Corrections agent whose job it is to monitor the prisons run by the corrupt corporations in the prison industrial complex.
The Collector is a dark fantasy story about an absent-minded thief named Denall, who steals a priceless treasure and gets more than he bargained for.
The Jupiter Boomerang takes a classic "Girl and her Horse" story and puts it in space, but it doesn't stop there. It examined the seedy underbelly of what is going on behind the scenes, unbeknownst to said girl.
Legacy of the She-Wolf is a story about the she-wolf who raised Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of the city of Rome.
Why did she choose to raise them instead of eat them? And what if she wasn't merely a wolf?
These are the questions this story explores.
I Am The Monster is the second episode of Wild Speculation season 2. It is the story of Pete, a young man who has been raised on religious fundamentalism, and who has found himself in a tight spot.
The crew of the UN-NASA research vessel Lorentz returns to Earth after their experimental mission, only to find the Earth completely devoid of human life.
They journey across the country, hoping to find other survivors.
In the season one finale of Wild Speculation, a vampire recounts his attempt to hunt down a fellow immortal and prevent him from reeking havoc on the world. In the process of the attempt, he makes a decision he regrets more than any other.
In the seventh episode of Wild Speculation, we follow a climate scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US President Elect.
New data has shown that the threat from climate change is bigger and more immediate than anyone realized. Will we take the necessary steps to avoid the worst effects? Or will we continue to create problems for future generations?
In the sixth episode of Wild Speculation, we find ourselves in a courtroom. But not just any courtroom. This place is where sorcerers stand trial. In this place, a young sorcerer stands accused of putting the sorcerous community at risk.
Can the prosecution make the charges stick, or will the young man's standing as a member of a powerful family of sorcerers protect him?
In the fifth episode of Wild Speculation, we visit a devastated Manhattan. Shunned and feared by the rest of the world, the mutant inhabitants of the post-apocalyptic island must make do with scavenging the riches of the once-great city. Mad Hattan is the story of one young scavenger who uses every advantage she can find to survive.
In the fourth episode of Wild Speculation, we travel to a possibly historical Judeo-Christian myth, and experience it from the other side. The Giant's last day is a humanization of a character who has entered our cultural consciousness as a villain.
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