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Escape Pod 874: Common Speech

02.02.2023

Common Speech By Elise Stephens Dr. Jaiyesimi Obiaka tugged at her sweat-damp collar, wiped her eyes, and tried to focus on the copied pages of the final experiment she and Ganiru had created together. Just looking over his familiar handwriting ...

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02.02.2023 Escape Pod 874: Common Speech Common Speech By Elise Stephens Dr. Jaiyesimi Obiaka tugged at her sweat-damp collar, wiped her eyes, and tried to focus on the copied pages of the final experiment she and Ganiru had created together. Just looking over his familiar handwriting ...
01.31.2023 January 2023 Metacast Presenters: Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart Hey folks, welcome to an Escape Artists metacast. I’m Marguerite Kenner. And I’m Alasdair Stuart. For those of you who have never heard a metacast before, think of this like a mini State of ...
01.26.2023 Escape Pod 873: The Hazmat Sisters (Part 2 of 2) Author : L. X. Beckett Narrator : Amy Kelly Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “The Hazmat Sisters” appeared in Asimovs in July 2021 and was a finalist for their Reader’s Choice award. It’s one of three ...
01.19.2023 Escape Pod 872: The HazMat Sisters (Part 1 of 2) Author : L. X. Beckett Narrator : Amy Kelly Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “The Hazmat Sisters” appeared in Asimovs in July 2021 and was a finalist for their Reader’s Choice award. It’s one of three ...
01.12.2023 Escape Pod 871: The Contrary Gardener (Part 2 of 2) The Contrary Gardener (Part 2 of 2) By Christopher Rowe (Continued from Part 1) Even in the ‘Ville, even in a family of master cultivators, tickets were not easy to come by, so it was not unusual that Kay Lynne ...
01.05.2023 Escape Pod 870: The Contrary Gardener (Part 1 of 2) The Contrary Gardener By Christopher Rowe Kay Lynne wandered up and down the aisles of the seed library dug out beneath the county extension office. Some of the rows were marked with glowing orange off-limits fungus, warning the unwary away ...
12.29.2022 Escape Pod 869: Excuse Me, This Is My Apocalypse Author : Amy Johnson Narrator : Christiana Ellis Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 869: Excuse Me, This Is My Apocalypse is an Escape Pod original. Excuse Me, This Is My Apocalypse by Amy Johnson ...
12.22.2022 Escape Pod 868: Any Other Customer Any Other Customer By Rachel Gutin Lewis was poking at his tablet, trying yet again to open the training module from Station Commerce, when the sensor above his shop door chimed. “Not now!” he snapped without looking up. “But… but ...
12.15.2022 Escape Pod 867: Through the Mirror Author : Heather Kilbourn Narrator : Eric Luke Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 867: Through the Mirror is an Escape Pod original. Contains harsh language Through the Mirror by Heather Kilbourn The crashed spaceship ...
12.08.2022 Escape Pod 866: The Sea Goddesss’ Bloom The Sea Goddess' Bloom By Uchechukwu Nwaka There is doubt in my heart. Here, in the Blackwater, doubt is dangerous. Doubt is rancid. Like slitting the mud-smeared belly of a catfish, only to find its guts blackened by pollution, then ...
12.01.2022 Escape Pod 865: Spider (Part 2 of 2) Author : Patrice Sarath Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks The Way of the Laser (Vernacular Books, May 2020) Don’t miss Spider, Part One Spider (Part 2) by Patrice Sarath Nguyen “Attention. Attention. ...
11.24.2022 Escape Pod 864: Spider (Part 1 of 2) Author : Patrice Sarath Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks The Way of the Laser (Vernacular Books, May 2020) Some harsh language Spider by Patrice Sarath Bifrost Mining Station, June 2063 The plan ...
11.17.2022 Escape Pod 863: A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity Author : Renan Bernardo Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 863: A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity is an Escape Pod original. A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity by Renan Bernardo Conchinha Charging… 87% Energy ...
11.10.2022 Escape Pod 862: The Pill (Part 2 of 2) By Meg Elison (Continued from Part 1) The Pill sold like nothing had ever sold before. The original, the generic, the knockoffs, the different versions approved in Europe and Asia that met their standards and got rammed through their testing. ...
11.03.2022 Escape Pod 861: The Pill (Part 1 of 2) The Pill (Part 1 of 2) By Meg Elison My mother took the Pill before anybody even knew about it. She was always signing up for those studies at the university, saying she was doing it because she was bored. ...
10.27.2022 Escape Pod 860: Solo Cooking for the Recently Revived Author : Aimee Picchi Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Solo Cooking for the Recently Revived” was previously published in the Zombies Need Brains anthology “Apocalyptic” in June 2020 Solo Cooking for the ...
10.20.2022 Escape Pod 859: Pen Pal (Part 2 of 2) (Continued from Part 1) Pen Pal By Grant Canterbury August 8, 2005 Meliari Thulissia General Delivery Tharsis Station Dear Thu, Well I officially graduated from high school! And I have been itching to get out into the world for a ...
10.13.2022 Escape Pod 858: Pen Pal (Part 1 of 2) Pen Pal By Grant Canterbury December Third, 1996 Meliari Thulissia General Delivery Tharsis Station Dear Meliari, Hello!! My name is Mary and I am nine years old. I got your name for a pen pal and they said you were ...
10.06.2022 Escape Pod 857: Salvaged Author : Adriana Kantcheva Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 857: Salvaged is an Escape Pod original. Salvaged by Adriana Kantcheva I have her body. If I’d also had her life, would I have lived ...
09.29.2022 Escape Pod 856: The Princess, NP The Princess, NP By Brian Hugenbruch I sat in the Commander’s office at Hexa Station, in clothes that stank of subspace, and the only polite thing I could do to drown out the universe was compute obscene sums in my ...
09.22.2022 Escape Pod 855: A Home For Mrs. Biswas Author : Amal Singh Narrator : Kaushik Narasimhan Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “A Home For Mrs. Biswas” previously appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (April 2021) A Home For Mrs. Biswas by Amal Singh Once she saw ...
09.15.2022 Escape Pod 854: Pickled Roots and Peeled Shoots and a Bowl of Farflower Tea Pickled Roots and Peeled Shoots and a Bowl of Farflower Tea By Chaz Brenchley there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me Just that morning, she’d had a novice shave her head for her. He was a promising lad ...
09.08.2022 Escape Pod 853: 2022 Flash Fiction Contest Winners Authors : Andrew Hiller, Brandon Case and Bob McHugh Narrators : Elie Hirschman, Justine Eyre and Jairus Durnett Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 853: 2022 Flash Fiction Contest Winners is an Escape Pod original. ...
09.01.2022 Escape Pod 852: The Pieces That Bind The Pieces that Bind By Carol Scheina The first thing Georgia knew for certain was that the woman rummaging through the canned beans and peas in the pantry was not her grandma, even though she looked exactly like her, right ...
08.25.2022 Escape Pod 851: Time Bomb Time Author : C.C. Finlay Narrator : Heather Thomas Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Time Bomb Time” originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of Lightspeed Magazine. It was reprinted in Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science ...
08.18.2022 Escape Pod 850: Laser Squid Goes House Hunting Laser Squid Goes House Hunting By Douglas DiCicco "This one has everything on your checklist." I held open the front door of the four-bedroom colonial. It wasn't quite big enough for my client, who left greasy marks on the doorframe ...
08.11.2022 Escape Pod 849: There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai Author : Andrea Kriz Narrator : Valerie Valdes Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai” originally appeared in Lightspeed Magazine in May 2021. There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai by ...
08.04.2022 Escape Pod 848: An Incident on Ishtar An Incident on Ishtar By Brian Trent Her family tried very hard to never use the word “crazy” with her. So therefore, they didn’t say it was crazy that she was applying for a Venusian post as Tier 3 Balloon ...
07.28.2022 Escape Pod 847: Houseproud Author : Laurence Raphael Brothers Narrators : Adam Pracht and Summer Brooks Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Houseproud” originally appeared in the SciFutures “City of the Future” anthology and also won the Berkeley Machine Intelligence Research ...
07.21.2022 Escape Pod 846: Dandelion Dandelion By John Shade Before the border wall, we scatter. Dandelions. The nanomachines grind us down and we float up and through the cracks, molecule to molecule, like holding hands. Leena hesitates, is left behind. She stands apart on the ...
07.14.2022 Escape Pod 845: Across the River, My Heart, My Memory Across the River, My Heart, My Memory By Ann LeBlanc 1. I am Michelle’s artificial pancreas, stolen cleanly and carefully from her gut. The surgeons are quick; before I can finish my hard reset, they place me inside you. I ...
07.07.2022 Escape Pod 844: The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 2) Author : Jordan Chase-Young Narrator : Justin Thomas James Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of The Colored Lens (October 15, 2020) The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part ...
06.30.2022 Escape Pod 843: The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 1) Author : Jordan Chase-Young Narrator : Justin Thomas James Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of The Colored Lens (October 15 2020). The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part ...
06.23.2022 Escape Pod 842: Love and Supervillains Love and Supervillains By Caroline Diorio The gals here at the Raleigh Women’s Asylum for the Nefariously Gifted have a little saying they like to share with the newbies: fuck a superhero once, shame on him; fuck a superhero twice, ...
06.16.2022 Escape Pod 841: Deepo 12 Deepo 12 By Jeff Hewitt Nothing made Deepo 12 feel more alive than doing its job. Its actuators sighed as another cassette slid from its workstation, tinted blastic masking the rainbow sheen of the wafers inside. Dim strip lights curved ...
06.09.2022 Escape Pod 840: The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) / Alien Invader or Assistive Device? The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) By John Wiswell Dinosaurs don’t want to kill you; they just don’t care that you’re there. More people have been sat on by brontosauruses than have been eaten by all the theropods combined. ...
06.02.2022 Escape Pod 839: Universal Archive of Human History: FAQ Universal Archive of Human History: FAQ By Arturo Sierra The Gran Gliese Universal Archive of Human History contains over 5.7×1035 books and an innumerable collection of shorter works. Moreover, it is continuously growing, thanks to additions from spacefaring traders such ...
05.26.2022 Escape Pod 838: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 4 of 4) Author : R.S.A. Garcia Narrator : Maxine Moore Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums This story first appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 172, January 2021), and is a finalist for the 2022 Ignyte Award ...
05.19.2022 Escape Pod 837: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 3 of 4) Author : R.S.A. Garcia Narrator : Maxine Moore Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums This story first appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 172, January 2021), and is a finalist for the 2022 Ignyte Award ...
05.12.2022 Escape Pod 836: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 2 of 4) Author : R.S.A. Garcia Narrator : Maxine Moore Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums This story first appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 172, January 2021), and is a finalist for the 2022 Ignyte Award ...
05.05.2022 Escape Pod 835: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 1 of 4) Author : R.S.A. Garcia Narrator : Maxine Moore Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums This story first appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 172, January 2021), and is a finalist for the 2022 Ignyte Award ...
04.28.2022 Escape Pod 834: Anticipation of Hollowness Author : Renan Bernardo Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums This story first appeared in World Science Fiction #2: Reloading the Future (July 2021) Anticipation of Hollowness by Renan Bernardo ...
04.21.2022 Escape Pod 833: The Heroine Kokofe The Heroine Kokofe By Ife J. Ibitayo Kokofe awoke an hour before dawn, crusty-eyed and groggy. She wobbled to her feet and washed her face. Her simuclip projected her reflection before her eyes. Already dressed, her pink all-weather blouse draped ...
04.14.2022 Escape Pod 832: Mouthfeel Author : Phoenix Alexander Narrator : Nicola Seaton-Clark Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums Escape Pod 832: Mouthfeel is an Escape Pod original. Mouthfeel by Phoenix Alexander 2050 After she left him, he found ...
04.07.2022 Escape Pod 831: Vi’Hun Heal Vi'hun Heal By Michelle Tang The entrance panels, currently assuming the appearance of Earthian saloon doors, slid open. I rippled a welcoming cadence of light beneath my skin, and then, seeing the newcomer was human, made my best approximation of ...
04.01.2022 CatsCast 1: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner Author : Jennifer Hudak Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Laura Pearlman Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie The Cat Lady and the Petitioner by Jennifer Hudak Laurie stands in front of a door. It’s old but solid, as many old ...
03.31.2022 Escape Pod 830: Rena in the Desert Author : Lia Swope Mitchell Narrator : S. Kay Nash Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums “Rena in the Desert” was previously published in Asimov’s (March/April 2020) Contains harsh language Rena in the Desert ...
03.24.2022 Escape Pod 829: Wild Meat Wild Meat By Shari Paul Girl, I have a story to tell you. Remember the wild meat competition I did tell you about? The one they was planning to have on the holiday weekend? Well, talk about bacchanal because Naresh ...
03.19.2022 Escape Pod 828: City of Refuge Author : Maurice Broaddus Narrator : Hollis Monroe Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums City of Refuge originally appeared in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology, November 2020. Contains harsh language, violence, and drug ...
03.10.2022 Escape Pod 827: The Wrong Side of the Sky The Wrong Side of the Sky By Raymond Roach There’s an old woman who lives in the desert, and who has lived in the desert a very long time. So, too, have her people, but many of them have gone, ...

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Escape Pod 874: Common Speech

January 2023 Metacast

Escape Pod 873: The Hazmat Sisters (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 872: The HazMat Sisters (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 871: The Contrary Gardener (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 870: The Contrary Gardener (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 869: Excuse Me, This Is My Apocalypse

Escape Pod 868: Any Other Customer

Escape Pod 867: Through the Mirror

Escape Pod 866: The Sea Goddesss’ Bloom

Escape Pod 865: Spider (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 864: Spider (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 863: A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity

Escape Pod 862: The Pill (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 861: The Pill (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 860: Solo Cooking for the Recently Revived

Escape Pod 859: Pen Pal (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 858: Pen Pal (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 857: Salvaged

Escape Pod 856: The Princess, NP

Escape Pod 855: A Home For Mrs. Biswas

Escape Pod 854: Pickled Roots and Peeled Shoots and a Bowl of Farflower Tea

Escape Pod 853: 2022 Flash Fiction Contest Winners

Escape Pod 852: The Pieces That Bind

Escape Pod 851: Time Bomb Time

Escape Pod 850: Laser Squid Goes House Hunting

Escape Pod 849: There Are No Hot Topics on Whukai

Escape Pod 848: An Incident on Ishtar

Escape Pod 847: Houseproud

Escape Pod 846: Dandelion

Escape Pod 845: Across the River, My Heart, My Memory

Escape Pod 844: The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 2)

Escape Pod 843: The Vaulting Vandals of Termina Celeste (Part 1)

Escape Pod 842: Love and Supervillains

Escape Pod 841: Deepo 12

Escape Pod 840: The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) / Alien Invader or Assistive Device?

Escape Pod 839: Universal Archive of Human History: FAQ

Escape Pod 838: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 4 of 4)

Escape Pod 837: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 3 of 4)

Escape Pod 836: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 2 of 4)

Escape Pod 835: Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma (Part 1 of 4)

Escape Pod 834: Anticipation of Hollowness

Escape Pod 833: The Heroine Kokofe

Escape Pod 832: Mouthfeel

Escape Pod 831: Vi’Hun Heal

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Escape Pod 830: Rena in the Desert

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