Podcast

Main Fiction: “A.I. Family Values” by Ben Spillers This story is original to Starship Sofa Ben Spillers lives in Pueblo, Colorado with his girlfriend and two dogs. A refugee from a career as a software engineer in the greater NYC area, he briefly reinvented himself as an artisanal bread baker in Vermont before regaining his […]

Main Fiction: “Transference” by Jay Caselberg This story first appeared in Transtories (2011). Jay Caselberg is a writer based somewhere in the wilds of Europe. His work, poetry, short fiction and novels, has appeared in many places around the world and been translated into several languages. Sometimes, he even gets shortlisted for awards. Narrated by […]

Main Fiction: “The Lizard and the Rat” by Andrew Dana Hudson This story is original to StarShipSofa. Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher. His stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Slate Future Tense, Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Little Blue Marble, and more, as well as numerous books and anthologies. He is a member of the 2020/21 class […]

Main Fiction: “Love in the Time of Disconnect” by Hayley Stone This story is original to StarShipSofa. Hayley Stone is an award-winning writer, editor, and poet from California. She has published short fiction in Apex Magazine and Fireside Fiction, and is the author of the weird western cult hit Make Me No Grave, most recently […]

Main Fiction: “The Message” by Michael D. Burnside This story is original to StarShipSofa. Michael D. Burnside is a graduate of Ohio University. By day, he earns a living as a systems analyst, helping customers figure out what they need from their software. His interests include gaming, science, computer technology, history, politics, and, of course, […]