{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9077c08c-f50e-4ce8-95d1-03fbe7cc72d1/21324619-a601-464b-aaab-d1b9b998dbd0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 655 Brian Rappatta","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6112ae920252fa86ccc84ffe/6112afa4d6c7ff00127295e6.jpg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Main Fiction: The Prufrock Whisperer by Brian Rappatta</strong></p><p>This story was first published in <em>Amazing Stories, Issue 4</em>, April 2020.</p><p>Brian Rappatta (pronounced RAP puh tuh) once swore he would never set a story in his home town.&nbsp;Famous last words.&nbsp;He originally hails from Goshen, Indiana, where “The Prufrock Whisperer” takes place, but currently resides in South Korea.&nbsp;His previous fiction in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, have appeared in <em>Analog, Baffling Magazine, Amazing Stories</em>, and <em>Writers of the Future</em>, as well as in multiple anthologies and podcasts such as Curiosities and Tales to Terrify.</p><p><strong>Narrated by Will Stagl.</strong></p><p>Will Stagl lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife Susan and daughter, Violet. His is a creative professional by day, the leader singer and guitarist for a post-punk band called the Liquid Centers by night, and is always up for a pint at the corner pub.</p>","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}