Pulp Pickle

Under the ice of Mars, Maren Holt spent eleven years breeding a bean that ignores everything: the light, the walls, the gravity. At 3:12 in the morning, every plant in her greenhouse turns to look at the airlock.

The crop is coming in short, the scales say it's right on target, and the return ship leaves orbit in forty-one days.

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Watch the animated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m7vVLHwOjDg

Story by Corbin J. Hatch. Narrated by an AI voice (ElevenLabs).
 Music: "Forsaken" by Luba Hilman (Epidemic Sound).

0:00 This Is Pulp Pickle
 0:11 Part 1: Every bean turned to the airlock
 2:46 Short beans, on-target scales
 4:08 The filter purge on the schedule
 5:22 Forty-one days to the return ship
 6:35 Waiting up for the airlock pump
 6:57 Alone in the airlock
 9:30 Part 2: Bolted back to the wall
 11:19 Two airlock purges a night
 12:02 The harvest forecast
 12:56 Supper and potatoes again
 14:10 Unbolting the racks from the wall
 15:03 Waiting in the dark greenhouse
 17:24 Part 3: A heart too small for Earth
 18:14 Ada's heart scan
 19:22 Ada after lessons
 20:31 The airlock at three a.m.
 22:19 The commander at seven
 24:18 Two doors from the airlock
 25:47 Part 4: Every room but the greenhouse
 27:08 Running for the greenhouse
 28:43 Back out into the cold corridor
 30:29 The terminal by the greenhouse door
 31:49 The harvest count
 32:53 The return window

At Biome Nine Resort, for the Canyon Festival weekend, you can rent a devil: seven feet tall, horns, hooves, and a tail with a mind of its own. Your own body waits downstairs in Body Storage until Sunday at noon.

Gil Marsh is a dental hygienist (not the dentist). He goes down a day early to make sure everything is in order, and finds a family wheeling his body away.

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Watch the animated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/r8YGVuOFAe0

Story by Corbin J. Hatch. Narrated by an AI voice (ElevenLabs).
 Music: "Looking for the Party" by Mike Franklyn (Epidemic Sound).

0:00 This Is Pulp Pickle
 0:11 Part 1: The Return Policy Didn't Cover This
 3:01 Body Storage, Aisle Forty-Four
 7:02 The Lost Guests' Lounge
 9:52 The Lost-Body Report
 12:12 Part 2: Somebody Else Was Wearing Me
 15:04 Somebody in My Cradle
 17:58 The Search with Vera
 19:16 Loose Rental, Blue Blazer
 20:29 The Closing-Night Parade
 23:12 Part 3: The Man Wearing My Body Won't Give It Back
 24:00 The Lost Property Showroom
 26:44 Suite 9
 30:37 The Transfer Clinic
 31:56 The Devil Pound
 33:34 Part 4: A Hygienist in the Devil Pound
 38:02 Check-Ups
 39:49 Body Storage Gets Loud
 41:26 Back at the Transfer Clinic
 44:37 Swapping Back