Warning. This episode of EscapePod has F-bombs galore, and a lot of talk about sex.

EscapePod, episode 1017, The Love Pyramid, a Rocky Cornelius Consultancy, by Andrew Dana Hudson.

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, teacher, and critical futurist.

He is the author of the climate novel, Our Shared Storm, and the forthcoming cosmic mystery, absence, coming out in

26 from Soho Press. His short fiction as previously appeared in Escape Pod, as well as

light speed, analog, slate, and many more. Follow his work, including the big ideas behind

Rocky's Wild Adventures via his newsletter, Solar Shades.club.

It's narrated for us by our very own Valerie Valdez.

Valerie lives in an elaborate meme palace, with her husband and kids, where she writes,

edits, and moonlights as a muse.

When she isn't co-editing Escape Pod, she enjoys crafting bespoke artisanal curses, playing video games,

and admiring the outdoors from the safety of her living room.

Her debut novel, Chilling Effect, was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clark Award, and her short fiction and poetry have been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Magic the Gathering, and several anthologies.

Writing as Leah Amador, her first contemporary fantasy romance novel, Which You Would, is out now from Avon Books.

This is an escape pod original.

So keep your head down and maybe the paparazzi will go away. It's story time.

The Love Pyramid.

A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy.

What do you mean you aren't fucking?

Rocky Cornelius demanded.

That's terrible.

This is going to throw your whole value

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