Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 467 the travel cast is an

audio fiction podcast magazine that brings strange stories by

strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host Norm Sherman. Well I'm excited to bring our story to you folks this

week. It's a travel cast original Cast Commission, a Mythos inspired Nick Mamatas acquired work.

Nick's written some of my favorite stories here on the show before.

I can always tell when a story sticks with me good and hard,

when I can remember where I was or what I was doing in general at the time,

when I was sitting there somewhere with headphones on for hours that all bleed endlessly together,

moving little dots around or dragging little

lines on software, editing values, replaying seconds of audio over and over for minutes and

minutes and time means nothing.

At the end of the hall, episode 211, Nick's story about a robot saving a nursing home patient.

I just moved into a new apartment.

I remember it clearly. I was sitting there with my headphones on, as described earlier, on the floor of an otherwise empty room. Travelcast 144, joney rules.-Max.com, the modern day Joan of Arc blogger story.

Same setup, same headphones I think even, this time by a swimming pool.

Anyways, next stories tend to be memorable as the point, and I think you'll

find this is no exception. Nick is the author of six and a half novels. His latest collection

The Necron is available from InSmith Free Press. His fiction has been nominated for a number of awards, including several Bram Stoker awards, as well as the World Fantasy and the Hugo.

With Masumi Washington, he co-edited the Locust Award nominated the Future's Japanese,

and with Ellen Dattlow, he co-edited the Bramstoker Award winning Haunted Legends.

His short fictions appeared in genre publications such as Asimov's Tour.com, lit journals including New Haven

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