Escape Pod

Author : Malon Edwards Narrators : Dominick Rabrun, C.S.E. Cooney and Laurice White Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Code Switching originally appeared in If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories – September 12, 2023. Contains racism, war, and grade-A cursing. Code Switching (Part 2 of 4) By Malon Edwards (…Continued from […]

Author : Malon Edwards Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Code Switching originally appeared in If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories – September 12, 2023. Contains depictions of racism. Code Switching (Part 1 of 4) By Malon Edwards INTRO: ALL I’M EVER GON’ DO IS STAY BLACK […]

Authors : Sarina Dorie and Addison Smith Narrators : Tina Connolly and Andrew K. Hoe Hosts : Alasdair Stuart and Kat Day Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 965: T-Rex Tex Mex / Mother Death Learns a Trick is an Escape Pod original. T-Rex Tex Mex by Sarina Dorie “Whoa! Hold on, partner!” the […]

Author : Greg van Eekhout Narrator : Anna Eley Hosts : Mur Lafferty and Serah Eley Audio Producers : Adam Pracht and Serah Eley Show and Tell originally appeared in Strange Horizons June 10, 2002. Contains mild scenes of violence. Show and Tell By Greg van Eekhout Teacher is an old-fashioned bug with a blue carapace and eyes […]

Author : Julia Rios Narrators : Abra Staffin-Wiebe and Tatiana Grey Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “To Catch a Flieff” was originally written as a bonus for backers of the Bridge to Elsewhere Kickstarter (an anthology of stories set on bridges of spaceships). Listen to Part 1: Escape Pod 962: To […]

Author : Julia Rios Narrators : Abra Staffin-Wiebe and Tatiana Grey Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “To Catch a Flieff” was originally written as a bonus for backers of the Bridge to Elsewhere Kickstarter (an anthology of stories set on bridges of spaceships). To Catch a Flieff by Julia Rios Alessia […]

Author : Larry Hodges Narrator : Mur Lafferty Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 961: Mathball is an Escape Pod original. Mathball By Larry Hodges You are a baseball fan, sitting in the centerfield seats eating an overpriced hot dog. You are wearing a baseball cap, but not a batting […]

Author : Benjamin C. Kinney Narrator : Heather Thomas Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story originally appeared in the anthology “The Internet Is Where The Robots Live Now” (Paper Dog Press, November 2018). Elegy of Carbon by Benjamin C. Kinney The miner birthed itself among rubble and vacuum, as it […]

Author : Arden Baker Narrators : Scott Campbell, Graeme Dunlop and Valerie Valdes Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 959: This Little War of Ours is an Escape Pod original. Brief mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation, and an apocalypse setting. This Little War of Ours By Arden Baker   […]

Author : Marissa Lingen Narrator : The Word Whore Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Originally appeared in Analog (2011), and in Escape Pod 366 (Oct 2012) Some of Them Closer by Marissa Lingen Coming back to Earth was not the immediate shock they expected it to be for me. It was […]