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  • Podcast Episode 51: New Niches

    Podcast Episode 51: New Niches
    Aug 17 2026
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! It's me, Michael J. DeLuca, your once-and-future host, taking over for audio editor emeritus Aaron Kling, who as one of his last contributions to Reckoning produced and narrated this episode's story, "New Niches" by Jackie Roberti. "New Niches" was a favorite from Reckoning 9, and it made the shortlist for ECO25, the Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction anthology edited by Marissa Van Uden. It's a story about seeking solitude, seeking reprieve from the horrors, and finding something more—not just reprieve, but relief. It's about the complexity and contradictory nature of climate "solutions"—in this case, offshore wind. Maybe it's a story about "touching grass"? I can't say I completely understand that expression, but I'm trying to. I think it's about letting nature restore you to yourself, something we all desperately need. Here's hoping this quiet, contemplative story does a little of that for you. New Niches by Jackie Roberti
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    29 min
  • Podcast Episode 50: The Pelican in its Piety

    Podcast Episode 50: The Pelican in its Piety
    Apr 15 2026
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Michael J. DeLuca, publisher of Reckoning and erstwhile podcast host, back to introduce a story I've had the privilege to narrate for you, "The Pelican in its Piety" by S.L. Harris, which appeared in Reckoning 9. This recording was produced by Reckoning's audio editor, Aaron Kling, who'll be back hosting for the next episode. This story is a particularly important one for me in the way it addresses the ethical impacts of certain patterns of authority in American Christianity and Catholicism in particular, which were instrumental in making me into the environmental justice activist I am. I read it and feel seen. Maybe you will too? I should prepare you: this piece leans further into the horrific than most Reckoning fare. Kids and animals in jeopardy. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. The Pelican in its Piety
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    20 min
  • Podcast Episode 49: Fixing the System in Tilt Town

    Podcast Episode 49: Fixing the System in Tilt Town
    Mar 2 2026
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. How's it going,everybody? Today, we've got a world on wheels with "Fixing the System in Tilt Town" from Reckoning 8, written by Kat Murray and read by Anna Pele. This one is a voyage, listeners. Despite occurring in a relatively small setting, Murray takes us through a period of dramatic change in the life of our main character. See the workings of a civilization that knows only sacrifice and exclusion. Watch how high of a price people are willing to pay. Wonder, alongside our character, what it would take to live a different life, a decent one. Will luck be on our character's side? Is luck even needed? Story's rolling right on in just a moment. "Fixing the System in Tilt Town" by Kat Murray
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    44 min
  • Podcast Episode 48: SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER

    Podcast Episode 48: SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER
    Jan 9 2026
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and listeners, if you're feeling cold, this episode will warm you right up. It's "SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER", from Reckoning 7, written and read by T.K. Rex. I really enjoyed "SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN". Before it's a story about climate, it's a story about building interspecies bridges, hand to flipper. Before it's a story about communication, it's a story about a changing world through a new pair of eyes. And before all that, it's a story about curiousity, about being willing to push out of your own sphere and into someone else's, even if you've got to go underwater to do it. And I think that's worth a listen. Right? SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER by T.K. Rex
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    34 min
  • Podcast Episode 47: It’s in the Blood

    Podcast Episode 47: It’s in the Blood
    Dec 10 2025
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Whenever and wherever you are, get hydrated and get hopeful, because it's the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to bring you another episode. Hope you're having a good one, because today we have "It's In the Blood" from Reckoning 8, written by Susan Kaye Quinn and read by Anna Pele. This is a story about one of my favorite things, guerilla pharmacological research and distribution. Not exactly a common genre, I know, but Susan has put equal parts thought and heart into her world of poisoned livers and singsong façades. Give it a listen! You won't be disappointed. "It's in the Blood" by Susan Kaye Quinn
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    26 min
  • Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City

    Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City
    Oct 22 2025
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And today we have "What it Means to Love a City", proudly featured in Reckoning 7, written by Morris Hinkle and read by Andrew Kozma. Consider a city, those mosaic aggregates of homes, industries, and the systems needed to support them. I'm sure you've all heard writers compare cities to bodies, but what connects a person to a place? What's life like nested inside another life? What does it mean to love a city? Listener, I really liked Hinkle's answers to those questions, and I think you'll like them too. "What It Means to Love a City" by Morris Hinkle
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    28 min
  • Podcast Episode 45: Within the Seed Lives the Fruit

    Podcast Episode 45: Within the Seed Lives the Fruit
    Aug 19 2025
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And for today's podcast, we have "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit", from Reckoning 8, by Leah Andelsmith. This is a story about a family living and caring for their loaned land. But make no mistake: this is a decades-long fight for survival that sees our cast twine round a territory that, in time, twines back. Can they make a good life for themselves through hard work and perseverance? Is there another way? And do we know what shape that life will take in the end? Have a listen, and find out. Happy listening, people. Aaron out! Within the Seed Lives the Fruit by Leah Andelsmith
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    53 min
  • Podcast Episode 44: We Will Not Dream of Corals

    Podcast Episode 44: We Will Not Dream of Corals
    Jul 15 2025
    Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: We're here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, bringing you a story written by Mario Coelho, and read by Reckoning's Bernie Jean Schibeling. "We Will Not Dream of Corals" is, at its core, revenge by way of a wish. Coral, a creature which has carried the brunt of climate change for decades, adapts a lifestyle that enables it to work symbiotically with humans and directly target infrastructure perpetuating its destruction. For our reader, Bernie Jean Schiebeling, the central wish of the story is summed up in the lines, "You could have had a good life. [...] You could have had time, so much time, to do what you love[....]" Corals, after all, are builders, and in his direct addresses to readers, Coelho asks what future we want to build. Enjoy the read, everybody! "We Will Not Dream of Corals" by Mário Coelho
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    35 min