Flesh and Biscuits
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Just a reminder that you can hear me reading my story Fleshy at Terra Incognita SF.
TISF is a great monthly podcast which asks writers in the Australian spec fic scene to read one of their own stories aloud. The really cute thing is that Keith Stevenson, the mind behind TISF, actually posts a microphone and recording gear to each month’s author! Luckily I was able to assure him we have a microphone, which saved him the postage for one month…
Fleshy is a story I wrote for 2012, the first of the Twelfth Planet Press anthologies - a collection of near future stories. It’s one of the few stories I’ve ever written which I think of as “real” science fiction - it was even inspired by an issue of Cosmos magazine! I think it was two separate articles that sparked off the story - one about cloning technology and another about making art out of body organs. Possibly I am imagining that second article.
“Fleshy” is about a woman whose partner brings home an experiment in cloning technology - which she, living from home, has to live with. It’s a story about ethics in science and in relationships, with plenty of pop culture references in there cos I love them (plus, it being one of my story, tea and biscuits) and it’s kind of icky! It was also the first story I ever had shortlisted in the Aurealis Awards. I’m pretty proud of it, and it was fun to read aloud.
So go have a listen!