Escape Pod 1006: When the Oracle Speaks (Part 2 of 2)

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Author : Albert Chu Narrator : Hugo Jackson Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “When the Oracle Speaks” was first published in Metaphororsis, July 2023 When the Oracle Speaks (Part 2) by Albert Chu Outside the warehouse, the rain fell in sheets. It whipped the Azure River into a frenzy, and the […]

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0:00.0	EscapePod, Episode 106, When the Oracle Speaks by Albert Chu, part part two of two. Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:43.3	I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
0:47.3	Our story this week is Part 2 of When the Oracle Speaks by Albert Chu.
0:52.3	This story was originally published in Metaphorosis
0:55.7	in July 2023. Albert Chew's speculative fiction has appeared in F&SF, Podcastle, Fusion Fragment,
1:04.3	and other venues. He writes fiction that transposes the ordinary concerns of his life into fantastic
1:10.0	settings filled with lasers and magic.
1:14.6	Our narrator, Hugo Jackson, is an author and streamer on the east coast of the USA. Born in the UK,
1:20.6	they moved to the US to be with their partner and has since published the first three novels of a five-book young adult fantasy series, the Resonance Tetralogy, through inspired Quill.
1:30.3	They also stream semi-regularly on Twitch, username, Pangolin Fox,
1:35.3	and run a yearly charity stream on World Pangalind Day
1:38.3	to raise money for one of their favorite animals, the aforementioned Pangolin.
1:43.3	Now, get ready for prophecy to be fulfilled, like it or not. one of their favorite animals, the aforementioned pangolin.
1:50.2	Now, get ready for prophecy to be fulfilled, like it or not, because it's story time.
2:02.0	When the Oracle Speaks by Albert Chu, narrated by Hugo Jackson.
2:09.5	Outside the warehouse, the rain fell in sheet. It whipped the Asseur River into a frenzy, and the waters responded with a hungry roar as they swirled past the dock. It pounded the warehouse's
2:14.9	loading bay, transforming it into a marshy field of shallow pond and rocky islands.
2:20.5	Nobody, not even a dock worker, was about. The only things that moved were the automator.
2:27.0	They paced back and forth, their armour caked with rust, and as they splashed through the watery field,
2:32.3	droplets running down their limbs, they showed no signs of minding.
2:36.8	The shadow of a narrow alleyway enveloped me, hiding me from the automata.
2:41.6	For a moment, anticipation and fear flickered in my chest, before I exhale and snuffed them both out.
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