Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Cast of Wonders 192: There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot (Staff Pick 2015)
Show Notes
Every year in January, Cast of Wonders takes the month off to recharge our batteries, plan the year ahead, and highlight some of our favourite episodes. As part of joining the Escape Artists family, this year we’re pulling out all the stops. We’re running 10 staff pick episodes over the month, each one hosted by a different member of the Cast of Wonders crew.
We hope you enjoy slush reader Alexis’ Goble’s favorite story from 2015, There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot by Christian McKay Heidicker and narrated by Marguerite Kenner. The story originally aired March 15, 2015 as Cast of Wonders 159.
There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot
by Christian McKay Heidicker
Leticia Andrews saw the wizard hat on a Monday morning at 7:06 a.m. She was eating Lucky Charms in the kitchen nook. The hat was gray and tattered and sat in the window of her plastic princess house, which was in the backyard.
“MOM!” she screamed down the hallway. “DO I HAVE A WIZARD HAT?”
“Don’t think so! Unless Uncle Lewis . . .”
“DOES JAKEY?”
“Honey, I don’t know! I’m working?”
Jake, Teece’s baby brother, did not have a wizard hat. She was 96.2% sure. At least not one so pointy and floppy and not covered in glitter like the ones from Toys ‘R’ Us. Even though Teece had never seen one before, she knew the hat that currently sat in her princess house was a real wizard hat. And that meant things.
