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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:30:03 +0000

[...] a devoted fan of her work ever since. I’ve published her work on PodCastle – Magnificent Pigs; Dead Girl’s Wedding March; “I’ll Gnaw Your Bones,” the Manticore Said; Foam on the Water; In Order to Conserve; and the [...]

By: Spork

Spork — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:46:23 +0000

This was really, really bad.

Lame characters, piss-poor magic system that made little sense, and just because a story stops, doesn’t mean it ended.

By: Zergonapal

Zergonapal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:03:12 +0000

I felt nothing listening to this podcast, no wait, I felt ANNOYED.
Annoyed at all of the cliches like the father set in his way, the leecherous doctor, the perverted rat and the 5312 year old teenager that was STILL selfish.
Annoyed that, using a culinary anology, I was eating cardboard. Except I can sink my teeth into cardboard so it was more like unsweetened egg whites, yeah theres alot you can do with egg whites, but this story wasn’t even half-baked.

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:30:28 +0000

I thought the ending was excellently minimilistic and suited the story; by the way we need a lot more zombies as well.

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:10:07 +0000

Not a bad story, I don’t mind the ending like some of the others did.

The people had immortality, but at the price of never changing.

I think the argument was whether immortality meant anything if you weren’t really living.

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:48:42 +0000

Interesting story, always nice to see love bring down the house, or kingdom as the case may be.

By: Bingorage

Bingorage — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:28:05 +0000

Incomplete! This is a world that I want to spend weeks reading about, and all I got was the second last chapter.
:Eric

By: Hyperion

Hyperion — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:43:01 +0000

“Dead Girl’s Wedding March” had a sweet elegaic tone, although it reminded me powerfully of another story about a dead city that did not know it was dead. (The name escapes me at the moment, although to be clear: I’m not accusing or anything.)

I think my “problem,” if it could be called that, is that the story feels so slight. A beautiful set-up, with interesting characterization and a nice mystery about the city, and then nothing happens. I could have wished to see how the other rats reacted, or some of the wedding itself.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m nitpicking, but it just seemed like there was so much possibility here, and not enough of it was realized.

By: nORM

nORM — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:41:50 +0000

Sorry, didn’t care for this one. As always Cat Rambo has a great imigination, but falls short on drive and emotion. This one was stale for me.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:09:15 +0000

Great writing, spellbinding and haunting world.
But was that an ending?
What was the moral of the story: beware of your bored teenagers or they will destroy the world around you?

By: LittleLotus

LittleLotus — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:13:48 +0000

Why is it that every really great story ends just when its getting good? I wish this story went on further to explain who the mages and sorcerers were that created this zombie world and what happened when love was introduced after the initial destruction. But I guess that would be my part as a reader/listener to decide for myself. Great story, great reading, and as always I can’t wait for more!