{"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-4ce8-95d1-03fbe7cc72d1/6e526933-ee0f-49c7-9506-33e92cd65694?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"StarShipSofa No 542 Ian Creasey","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6112ae920252fa86ccc84ffe/6112afa5d6c7ff0012729906.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Patreon support now standing at 417 – last week 416&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=238253\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Help us get to 500 Patreon Supporters.</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Main Fiction: \"The Language of Flowers\" by Ian Creasey</strong></p><p>This story originally appeared in <em>Analog</em> (May 2016)</p><p>Ian Creasey&nbsp;lives in Yorkshire, England. He has published seventy-odd short stories in magazines and anthologies.\"The&nbsp;Language&nbsp;of</p><p>Flowers\" originally appeared in Analog (May 2016).&nbsp;\"The Language of Flowers\" is a sequel to&nbsp;\"Ormonde and Chase\", which was podcasted on StarShipSofa in episode 533,&nbsp;April 2018.&nbsp;But don't worry if you didn't catch the previous story, as&nbsp;this one does work as a standalone.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Narrated by: Matt Dovey</strong></p><p>Matt Dovey<strong>&nbsp;</strong>is very tall and very English and most likely drinking a cup of tea right now. He has a scar on his arm that he can’t remember getting, but a terrible darkness floods his mind when he considers it. He now lives in a quiet market town in rural England with his wife and three children, and despite being a writer, he still hasn’t found the right words to properly express the delight and joy he finds in this wonderful arrangement.</p><p>His surname rhymes with “Dopey”, but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. He is the Golden Pen winner for&nbsp;<em>Writers of the Future</em>&nbsp;Volume 32 (2016), was shortlisted for the James White Award in 2016, and has fiction out and forthcoming all over the place; you can keep up with it at&nbsp;<a href=\"https://mattdovey.com/\" target=\"_blank\">mattdovey.com</a>, or follow along on&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MattDoveyWriter/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://twitter.com/mattdoveywriter\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter</a>.</p>","author_name":"Tony C Smith"}