My story “The Chex Gambit” is now up at Tina Connolly‘s most excellent Toasted Cake podcast. It takes a little over eleven minutes to listen.

This is my first publication via Podcast, and it was such a blast to hear someone else reading something I wrote. It’s not exactly the way I would’ve read it, but that’s the point, isn’t it? Tina does a great job, and then says things that make me sound smarter than I actually am.

Maxx Destruktinator, the story’s protagonist, is named after my friend Maxx, aka DJ Maxx Destrukt. I originally used her name as a placeholder for my supervillain, but grew attached to it, and asked permission to keep it. Thanks, Maxx!