Description:
Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't.
June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast. Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yesterday keeps coming unspooled, like a video tape. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map, if Claire and her maybe-girlfriend Julie can't stop it. Because reality doesn't apply in Indianola. Indianola is not supposed to exist.
Performed by Karen Novack, Yesenia Iglesias, Natalie Van Sistine, Laura C. Harris, Robb Moreira, Holly Adams, Kay Eluvian, Rayner Gabriel, Chris Davenport, Colleen Delany, Jacob Yeh, Bradley Foster Smith, Bianca Bryan, Carolyn Kashner, Melody Muze, Anthony Palmini, Nora Achrati, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Yasmin Tuazon, Nazia Chaudhry, Terence Aselford, and Niusha Nawab.
Brief description:
Cassandra Rose Clarke is a speculative fiction writer and occasional teacher. Her first adult novel, The Mad Scientist's Daughter, was a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award, and her YA novel, The Assassin's Curse, was nominated for YALSA's 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults. She is a graduate of the 2010 Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds a masters degree in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction. Visit her at CassandraRoseClarke.com..