Here's another Jeffrey Ford story in audio format. This one's a short story entitled "Creation."

Give it a listen, if you please. (Story starts at around the 00:34:30 mark.)

• Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2003.
• Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2002.
• World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2003.
• Featured in Datlow et al.’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, Sixteenth Edition.

Sadly, none of my favorite author's short story collections are available in audio book format. I had the idea recently to revisit all of Jeffrey Ford's short works through audio to see what I could learn from a modern master of the form, but I quickly found that my educational plan could not be enacted in full. Luckily, a number of his stories were recorded for various podcasts and are available for free in disparate locales across the internet. 

The Empire of Ice Cream is one such story. And I highly recommend you give it a listen. Genre-wise, it falls somewhere between science fiction and fantasy set in the modern world.

You can find it here. (The story begins at approximately 00:09:30)

• Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2004.
• Nebula for Best Novelette 2003.
• World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2004