Wild Speculation

Aug 16 2021 23 ep. 29 mins 38

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Wild Speculation is an anthology podcast that explores the many worlds of speculative fiction through short stories.

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Escape from NottingCorp

Aug 16 2021 28 mins

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.Support the show

Radicalized

Jul 31 2021 35 mins

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 p

A Simple Job

Jul 17 2021 29 mins

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.Support the show

A Dinner With Death

Jun 26 2021 30 mins

'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 sur

The Proposal

Jun 14 2021 36 mins

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.Support the show

Home

May 29 2021 52 mins

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..Support the show

A Trickster's Friendship

May 15 2021 25 mins

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?Support the show

Roll For Deception

Aug 15 2020 31 mins

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.Support the show

Orphan of Mars

Jul 02 2020 31 mins

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.Support the show

The Wheel of Death

Jun 05 2020 34 mins

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.Support the show