Tales From The Arcanist
A fiction podcast focusing on flash fiction by the editors of The Arcanist. Each episode contains four or more science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from flash fiction writers across the globe. For more, visit TheArcanist.IO
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
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14. "Tick Bit" and "The Truth Is in the Retelling"
This week, we've been bitten by a distinct persuasion, and we try to find our way to the truth
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13. "Salt" and "Cheap Copies"
This week, tensions with our loved ones are rising, and we find a new way to appreciate our own company.
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12. "Monster Sightings in the Home" and "Late Night at Roy's Diner"
This week, we're certain we saw something under the bed this time, and we're in the mood for a midnight bite from our favorite dive.
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11. "The Book of Ordinary Names" and "Lucky Albert"
This week, we learn what, if anything, is in a name, and our luck takes a drastic turn for the better.
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10. "Hourglass" and "Numen"
This week, we've finally found our origin story, and we need to have one more chat with Dad.
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9. "Fut-R-Sight" and "Leave No Trace"
This week, we fall for more targeted advertising, and we relearn a foremost lesson of the great outdoors.
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8. "We Wait for a Better Future" and "Consent"
This week, we have an anxious eye on what's ahead, and we need to have a long, serious discussion.
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7. "Not Quite the Last of the Martian Redhounds" and "Nannybot"
This week, we look back on the life of a good friend, and we finally get some help around the house.
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6. "Night, Night" and "Plunk at the Foot of the Mountain"
This week, we have a rather strict bedtime ritual, and we begin our quest at the foot of a mountain.
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5. "The Influencer" and "Energy, Inertia, Entropy"
This week, we experience the intricacies of social media, and we can't help but notice no one's talking about a particular issue.
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4. "A Cask of Special Vintage" and "The Mature Starlet's Guide to Making Comeback"
This week, we're offered a glass of something fiendishly rare, and we refuse to give way to time and tide.
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3. "Red Velvet in Black Charcoal" and "Message in a Bottle"
This week, we explore the visual arts a little more, and we revisit one of our favorites from Sting.
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2. "A Familiar Smell" and "The Invention of Time Travel"
This week, we've caught a whiff of something we can't quite put our finger on, and we learn about one of our favorite inventions.
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1. "Summoning Circles" and "Dr. Strang's Last Day"
This week, we take a look at circles and cycles, and we tender our resignation without any explosive consequences.
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Holiday Special: "Sack of Souls" and "Baubles and Beer Cans"
This week, in honor of the season, we have two holiday horrors from Christopher Stanley's collection The Lamppost Huggers, available now.
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19. "Bargaining" and "Jeremy's Wish"
This week, we have to cut a deal with a real bottom feeder, and we find just what we asked for under the tree.
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18. "Fooled by the Rocks" and "In Fairness to the Fair Folk"
This week, we recall a chart-topper from the 2000's, and even Ireland's daoine sídhe have a point.
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17. "I'm Looking Through You" and "Conjure By Numbers"
This week, the future of hacking reaches a new level of invasive, and we teach a netherworlder to hate the game, not the player.
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16. "The Reborn Series" and "Sallya On Fire"
This week, it's another day at the office, and one mistake has left us facing less-than-friendly fire.
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