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Today's episode is Gods of Rags, written by Juliana Motoki and narrated by Persephone Rose.

I don't want to be here, Suria says.

I watch people on the streets, shadows hurrying before dusk.

There is a tense thrum of panic in the air.

This is the hour of headhunting.

I surveyed the street in the way we learned.

Head forward, eyes catching, like rats in their corners.

What I see is faces not ready for collecting.

Amaciated children trok close to parents squinting at the dark horizons.

Too small, too young.

There are a few elders, but the one stumbling by, hacking into their bony chests,

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