{"podcast":{"title":"It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton","slug":"it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298","podcast_index_feed_id":7260298,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/itsstorytime","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/94732354-045d-11f0-bc01-f7a4b1f2fa1e/image/f08ca86a0c0d228c36f8cd5574a51738.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Wil Wheaton","episode_count":42,"summary":"You may recognize Wil Wheaton's name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985's timeless classic, Stand By Me. You may recognize his voice from one of the many audio books he's narrated, including number one New York Times bestseller, Ready Player One, John Scalzi's award-winning Collapsing Empire Trilogy, or even his own bestselling memoir, Still Just A Geek. Beginning on March 26th, Wil brings you It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, a weekly audiobook podcast, featuring stories that Wil loves, pulled from the pages of Uncanny, Lightspeed, On Spec, and others. You're going to meet authors you don't yet know you love, including some who are being narrated for the very first time. Listeners will travel through time, meet some gods, watch people fall in and out of love, and more, brought to life by Wil's remarkable narrative voice.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T22:17:59.118617+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298"},"episode":{"title":"\"Heathman Ldg\" by Brian Evenson","slug":"heathman-ldg-by-brian-evenson","published_at":"2026-04-15T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298/heathman-ldg-by-brian-evenson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298","url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1008/tracking.swap.fm/track/2IMk17EdnEqyRhJTIpIU/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RHAPSODYVOICES9758313950.mp3?updated=1776108918","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1008/tracking.swap.fm/track/2IMk17EdnEqyRhJTIpIU/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RHAPSODYVOICES9758313950.mp3?updated=1776108918","summary":"\"Heathman Ldg\" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheerfully playing for an audience of none. A paper ticket in your hand, in an airport departure lounge that hasn't seen a passenger in fifty years, the board still updating flight information, with whirling letters. The front desk in the empty hotel lobby, an abandoned cigarette burning down in a glass ashtray, static on a black and white TV. .These are Liminal Spaces: familiar, recognizable, but not quite right, and also a little bit wrong, in a way that is just beyond your ability to describe. Fortunately for us, it is not beyond author Brian Evenson's ability to describe. In fact, you may want to look up now and then to remind yourself where you actually are, as we take you out on the road, destination: Heathman Ldg. Original Publication Credit: “Heathman Ldg” was first published as a limited edition concertina chapbook in Brazil, in English with facing Portuguese translation: Heathman Ldg (Sao Paolo, Brazil: Raphus Press, 2023). Edition of 88, concertina. Nearly simultaneously it appeared in English as: “Heathman Ldg,” Bourbon Penn 32 (2024), 7-22. To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.brianevenson.com It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV. Special thanks to Wes Stevens and Christopher Black. It's Storytime is recorded at Skyboat Media in the beautiful San Fernando Valley, California. If you'd like to support the show and get an ad-free feed, visit ⁠pat…","meta_description":"\"Heathman Ldg\" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheer…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2021,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298/episodes/heathman-ldg-by-brian-evenson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-storytime-with-wil-wheaton-7260298/heathman-ldg-by-brian-evenson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}