Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 365 the travel cast is a weekly

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host Norm Sherman. This week we bring you this secular technology

by Bogiukash.

Bogi's a Hungarian Jewish author, a psycholinguist, and a popular science journalist.

Her speculative fiction and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in venues like Apex, Strange Horizons, Gyganatosaurus, and more.

She also has a story in the upcoming Sword and Mythos Lovecraftian anthology.

This story was previously published in the anthology Mirror Shards,

volume two, extending the edges of augmented reality by Black Moon books.

The story is guest produced this week by Andy Gray.

Andy's a full bearded musician and artist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida's

shining bastion of hipsterdom amidst a sea of redneckiness. His funk rock band

Trigger City Trio recently released their

debut album and is planning on touring the country in their minivan. Check them out

at Facebook at trigger city Trio.com. All of the music and sound effects to this week's story are by Andy himself.

Reading the story, we have Colleen Cherry.

Colleen's an actor, singer, musician, producer, and voiceover artist also based in St. Petersburg.

She's a founding member of avantgardion at avantgardion.com, an incubator, producer,

and advocate of theatrical and artistic works.

She's one half of the best of the Bay Award winning Capore Duo,

Coco and Homo, as well as singer-songwriter,

ukulele superstar of acoustic duo the Colleen and Andy show and you might

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