Intersecting Datafields – FFP 1033

“Intersecting Datafields” by Myna Chang Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Myna Chang hosts Electric Sheep SF and publishes MicroVerse Recommended Reading. Her short fiction has appeared in more than one hundred venues. Her flash collection, The Potential of Radio and Rain, is available from CutBank Books. Find her at MynaChang.com or on Bluesky @MynaChang.

“The Old Observatory on the Hill” by J. Federle Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: J. Federle grew up in Kentucky in a brick house in front of the woods. Catholic school left her with a love of the macabre and an empathy for monsters, which she suspects wasn’t the intended effect. Her sci-fi and horror emphasize hope and human connection; unrelated, her favorite Trek episodes are the scary ones. Online, she’s @JFederleWrites, the odd author behind the Author-Oddity Newsletter.

“Galilean Crossing” by Pauline Barmby Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Pauline Barmby is an astrophysicist who believes that you can’t have too many favorite galaxies. She lives in London, Canada and hopes to someday visit her namesake main belt asteroid, minor planet 281067. Visit her website at www.galacticwords.com.

“Soul Testing in Major Leage Baseball” by Larry Hodges Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Larry Hodges, of Germantown, MD, has over 230 short story sales and four SF novels. He’s a graduate of the Odyssey and Taos Toolbox Writers Workshops, a member of Codexwriters, and a ping-pong aficionado. As a professional writer, he has 23 books and over 2300 published articles in over 220 different publications. He’s also a member of the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame, and claims to be the best table tennis player in Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, and the best science fiction writer in USA Table Tennis!!! Visit him at www.larryhodges.com.

“The Circular Dilemma” by David Rich Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: David Rich holds two engineering degrees from MIT and lives in the Boston area with his family. His short fiction has been featured over the last several years in numerous literary journals including Bewildering Stories, Youth Imagination, Bards & Sages Quarterly, Eldritch Science, After Dinner Conversation, The Macabre Museum, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Corner Bar Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, The Lorelei Signal, and Underside Stories.

“Spirit World” by Karter Rowe Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Karter Rowe is a New Weird/Science Fiction writer from rural southern Queensland in Australia. A high-school dropout, Karter holds a Bacherlor’s and a Graduate degree in Creative Writing with a Masters in progress. Karter makes a living through warehousing but loves working on his fiction whenever he gets the a spare moment.

“A Galaxy Run in 30 Minutes” by J. D. Harlock Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: J. D. Harlock is an Eisner Award-nominated American writer, researcher, editor, and academic pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of St. Andrews, whose writing has been featured in Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, The Griffith Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and New York University’s Library of Arabic Literature. You can find him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, & Twitter.

“Grid” by Jaydn DeWald Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Jaydn DeWald (he/they) is the author of two books, The Rosebud Variations and Sheets of Sound, both from Broken Sleep Books, as well as several limited-edition chapbooks including A Love Supreme, winner of the 2019 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest. They are Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, and serve as managing editor for COMP: an interdisciplinary journal.

“The World is Raining” by Mira Singer Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Mira Singer has been making up stories since before she can remember. She spent her childhood in New England sword fighting with friends and searching for magic, and currently roots in a tree house in the wilds of Yonkers. Previous fiction publications include “The World is Raining” and “They Live So Little and they Die So Fast” on Flash Fiction Magazine. She has a BA in Storytelling from Vassar and two MFAs in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence and Pine Manor. You can find more about her writing at https://dragonsathenaeum.weebly.com/ bluesky: @jesterbellart.bsky.social‬ insta: @jesterbellart

“From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind” by Elisabeth Ring Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Elisabeth Ring is a writer and reader of eclectic things living in the western U.S. Her fiction has appeared in several publications including Apex and Cast of Wonders. She spends most of her time trying to wear out her energetic dog and keep her cats away from the houseplants. When she has time, she makes progress on her unwieldy TBR pile, and writes reviews on some of those books. You can read them at ringreads.com.