As one of the rewards for our Kickstarter campaign to take our puppet play “Whatnot” to WorldCon, I’m offering an unpublished short story. This is exclusively available to our donors, whether we make our funding goal or not.
All you have to do is donate, and the story will be visible to you. Even if we don’t reach our funding goal, you still get to read the story.
Here’s a teaser.
Trip, Trap, Tripping
by Mary Robinette Kowal
The heat rose off the sidewalks and crept down the walls; it wound down to the basement and clung with sticky fingers to Clef Troll’s skin. He grimaced as he tightened a pipe on his sink.
Through the pipe, came a constant syncopated rhythm. Occasionally the rat-ta-tat-tat would pause long enough for him to think it was over but then the tapping began again. He crawled out from under the sink and poked his head into the front room. The tapping was louder there.
He glared at the ceiling. Dammit all. He thought he’d left that behind with the stupid goats and the bridge.
I’ve made a small contribution.
I think I have, anyway.
Let me know if nothing showed up from me.
It showed up! Thank you so much.
I swear I read this before…..
I read it at Borderlands and there’s audio floating around the internet somewhere. I had the opening posted as a teaser. Maybe that’s what you are thinking of?
That’s it- it was one of your audio versions, back when Evil Robot Monkey was in the awards race.