CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 2
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Margaret continues with the final part of a gutting story about rejection and re-accimlation
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:11.2 | Book Club, book club, book club, book club. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello and welcome to the Cool Zone Media Book Club. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm your host Margaret Kiljoy, and today we are finishing up the story, |
| 0:24.0 | Moon Kids, by Abby May Otis. |
| 0:26.9 | If you didn't listen to the first part, well, that's strange. |
| 0:30.2 | That is a strange decision to have made. |
| 0:32.6 | You should listen to part one. |
| 0:34.7 | I guess I'm not actually in charge of you. |
| 0:37.9 | Where we last left off, we were following a click of moon kids, young adults who grew up in |
| 0:44.1 | the science utopia on the moon, but failed their aptitude tests and were sent back to Earth. |
| 0:50.7 | But because of the gravity shift, their whole bodies have been compressed down about six inches, |
| 0:54.9 | and they're, you know, kind of funny-looking by Earth standards. |
| 1:00.1 | And so far in this story, just to bring you up to speed, |
| 1:03.9 | you have met the following characters. |
| 1:06.2 | You've met Colleen, who has her shit together |
| 1:08.4 | and his mom to all the newly arrived moon kids. He's probably |
| 1:11.7 | our protagonist. And there's Tesla, manager of the crabby Abbey's crab shack where her crew all |
| 1:17.7 | works, but she's not adjusting well to Earth life. And there's trespass, Tesla's punk-ass younger |
| 1:23.4 | brother was a big mouth. And there's Abitha, who has newly arrived as the hot shit batty, who has big ambitions, |
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