Podcastle, Episode 9707 for Tuesday the 2nd of September 2025.

Maintenance Phase by A.D. Ellicott, read by Emma Osborne, and produced by Eric

Valdez, rated PG, with content notes for eating disorders and fat phobia.

Hello and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your guest host, Wilson Fowley.

Today, I am privileged to present to you Maintenance Phase by A.D. Ellicott, narrated by Emma Osborne.

This story was first published in the Anthology Body of Work from the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, edited by C. Z. Tax. Yes, I said,

Zed, I'm Canadian. A.D. Ellicott's apartment should not be able to hold quite so many books

or teapots, and yet here we are a few pocket

dimensions may be at fault she loves nothing more than to sit down with a cup of tea and

craft romantic tales from fantastic worlds she also co-hosts the podcast going pros

in which she tries to live by the recommendations of writing advice books or die

trying she can be found as at recommendations of writing advice books or die trying.

She can be found as at Acid Drop Writing on most social media.

I also found out that she goes by Addie and that you can find her online at aciddropwriting.com,

which has links to her podcast.

The story is narrated for you by Emma Osborne, a queer fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Australia.

Their writing has appeared in Nightmare magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Shock Totem, Apex Magazine,

Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Sudapod, Glittership, and Wastlands 3 edited by John Joseph Adams.

Emma is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion West Writers Workshop.

They currently live in Narm, Melbourne, Australia with their gorgeous girlfriend and three silly cats.

You can find Emma on Blue Sky as at Red Scrib.

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