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Author Archives: matt
Find My Stories!
2025
All The Trees Will Scream (Trollbreath 6, Winter 2025)
2023
Their Heads Filled to Bursting (Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2023)
Turf War 2200 (Simultaneous Times podcast 60 02/15/23)
2022
That Feeling You’re Feeling (StarShipSofa 700 12/01/22)
2021
The City Tongue (The Drabblecast Episode 453, 10/20/21)
Between Worlds (Nature, 08/20/21)
I Was Meant to Live Another Thousand Years (Kaleidotrope, Summer 2021)
2020
The Shallow One (The Drabblecast Episode 437, 12/12/20)
You Will Find Yourself Buried Beneath Rubble (Daily Science Fiction, 11/20/20)
Life and Times and Sometimes I’m a Chair (The Drabblecast Episode 427, 07/04/20)
2018
Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin (Apex Magazine 108)
OTHER TEXTY READS!
Beauty Belongs to the Flowers (Tor.com)
A Cold Day in Crisis (Electric Spec)
Giraffe Cyborg Cleans House (Diabolical Plots)
The Golem (Everyday Weirdness)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diplomat (Blood, Blade and Thruster 4)
Mr. Mellon Puts on his Fingers (Antipodean SF 76)
Passions in Orbit, a Stirring in the Pants (Antipodean SF 105)
A Spork in the Road (Antipodean SF 128)
Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! (Nature 7342)
The Thaumatrope stories (Thaumatrope (Duh!))
Three Kingdoms (Kaleidotrope)
To What It May Concern (Antipodean SF 90)
OTHER HEARY LISTENS!
Cyborg Giraffe Cleans House! (The Drabblecast, Episode 378)
The Empire State Building Strikes Back! (The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine)
Listen to Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range at the original Cossmass Infinities podcast! Cossmass Infinities is now defunct, but the files are here. Fluff is the first one on the page.
Now let’s jump on the Sofa! I also do some stuff on the StarShipSofa podcast. Here are links to my Fiction Crawler pieces on that very show. Fiction Crawler is all about me recommending free stories on the internet that I love:
Fiction Crawler 18 (Episode 637)
Fiction Crawler 17 (Episode 490)
Fiction Crawler 16 (Episode 422)
Fiction Crawler 15 (Episode 346)
Fiction Crawler 14 (Episode 306)
Fiction Crawler 13 (Episode 281)
Fiction Crawler 12 (Episode 222)
Fiction Crawler 11 (Episode 180)
Fiction Crawler 10 (Episode 159)
Fiction Crawler 9 (Episode 132)
Fiction Crawler 8 (Episode 98)
Fiction Crawler 7 (Episode 87)
Fiction Crawler 6 (Episode 80)
Fiction Crawler 5 (Episode 68)
Fiction Crawler 4 (Episode 60)
Fiction Crawler 3 (Episode 51)
Fiction Crawler 2 (Episode 45)
Fiction Crawler 1 (Episode 40)
And I’ve also had one non-crawling article on the show:
Jim Sawgrass and the Family Bulbs (episode 36)
In addition to all of that, I’ve had some of my fiction featured on the show (listed alphabetically):
About Face (Episode 362)
Brothers and Sisters All (episode 68)
A Hard Rain (episode 54)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diplomat (Episode 89)
The Ones That Got Away (episode 158)
Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin (Episode 677)
Sunday Dinner (episode 31)
And if that’s not enough, here’s an interview Tony C. Smith did with me on the StarShipSofa podcast. We talk about some behind the scenes action at Beware the Hairy Mango, convention fun, and what was happening with my writing at the time, including his collaborative project with Cerberus! (It starts at the 30 minute mark) StarShipSofa episode 335
Beware the Hairy Mango
Photo by Matthew Sanborn Smith (Is his talent limitless?)
The funniest podcast you’ve never heard! Join me for five minute installments of downhill racing through Crazytown. I speed through incomprehensible intros, absurdist flash fiction, and an ever-changing list of credits that some listeners feel is the best part of the show. The Mango family of podcasts is over 600 episodes strong and you can dive in at pretty much any point! You’ll have plenty of time for regrets later.
Listen to Beware the Hairy Mango – The original show that started it all back in 2009! Hundreds of episodes are sitting there for free!
Listen to Beware the Patronizing Mango – Carrying the torch for its older, lazy sibling, this show is almost exactly like the original save for the name. Although it’s part of my Patreon account, you can listen for free to nearly four dozen of the episodes through this link. And that number keeps growing!
Listen to Beware the Elitist Mango – The pay show for all the snobs the Mango can’t seem to scrape off its shoes. And yet, it’s nearly indistinguishable from the other two. All it really means is even more Mango!This link actually leads to my Patreon page. From there, you can join the $3.00 per month tier and get all the past Elitist episodes (closing in on 100 shows as of this post) as well as the ones to come!
Enjoy a sample episode below!
Other Nonsense
Here are some other things that I do:
I am part of the three-headed writing dog known as Cerberus!
I like to explore different artists’ takes on classic characters at Altered IDS!
I blog too infrequently at The One-Thousand!
Support My Work
Jeez, that’s a big “P!”
If you’re even on this website, you probably like my work. Here’s a way to get even more of it! By pledging your support at https://www.patreon.com/matthewsanbornsmith, you can get access to episodes of my patron only podcasts, Beware the Patronizing Mango and Beware the Elitist Mango! You can also get short stories, flash fiction, weekly updates, and sneak previews of my upcoming work.
Furthermore, your pledge helps me to make more time for my creative work so I can share cool stuff with the world at large. And guess what? You’re already part of the world at large! You can pledge as little as a dollar a month. I get to do more of the work I love, you get more goodies! Why are we still discussing this? Click the link!
About & Contact
Art by Kuldar Leement
Here’s an interview Andrea Johnson did with me for Apex Magazine back in 2018: https://apex-magazine.com/interviews-2/interview-with-author-matthew-sanborn-smith/ (I know the magazine cover overhead is not Apex. You don’t have to tell me.)
If you need me, shout me up at upwithgravity at gmail dot com.
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