Warming up this November with our special speculative fiction episode. Today we have pieces and interviews that discuss the nature of this area of literature that has emerged from the constraints of its own archetypes and shown what it can truly be.  

Part one of this episode features: "Balloon Animals" by Colleen Ennen, originally published in Breadcrumbs Magazine; and "Everything is Gay: Reading While Queer" by Andrew Esposito.