StarShipSofa No 738 Angela Slatter

StarShipSofa

Main fiction: “Tin Soldier” by Angela Slatter

Angela “A.G.” Slatter is the author of the gothic fantasy novels All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, and The Briar Book of the Dead (Titan Books); the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books); twelve short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings; the novellas Of Sorrow and Such, Ripper and The Bone Lantern; and a Hellboy Universe collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds. She’s won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, three Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards, and been shortlisted for the QLA Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Turkish, French and Romanian. angelaslatter.com

This story originally appeared in Dark Discoveries #35, 2016.

Narrated by: Monica Pierce and Rikki LaCoste.

Monica Pierce is a nerd. A nerd with a background in both sci-fi and musical theatre; she is also a wicked Dungeon Master and the newest member of The Seanachai Group—a motley gang of storytellers from Toronto Canada, founded by Rikki LaCoste, who is both a veteran narrator for StarShipSofa and an unrepentant nerd himself. And as far as we can tell, Rikki may not, in fact, be made of tin.

(The narrators would like to apologise to all English speakers of the UK for our use of the Toronto British dialect – a Canadian/Harry Potter hybrid. However, we are all quite convinced that this would be the Received Pronunciation spoken in the south of England by the 2200s CE.)

With many winks,

Rikki LaCostem