EscapePod. Episode 1026 What Any Dead Thing Wants by Amy Ogden, part part one of three. Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you part one of what any dead thingants by Amy Ogden.

This story first appeared in Psychopomp.

Amy Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands.

What Annie Dead Thing Wants is her second nebula finalist work.

Her first was her debut novella, son Daughters, Sea Daughters. Her other short

fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Clark's World, and

beneath Ceaseless Skies. And her fantasy novella Starstruck recently came out from Psychopomp.

She would make for a very annoying ghost.

Your narrator this week is Isaac Harwood.

Scientists by day, the evenings and weekends are for family,

but Isaac still finds the time for plenty of tabletop RPGs and other such nerdy nonsense.

Stories have always been a strong passion of Isaacs,

and bringing them to life with writing and voice acting is his privilege and honor.

Your audio producer this week is Summer Brooks.

Content notes, in this story you will find some swearing,

as well as some destruction of galactic ecosystems.

So get ready to meet some cabbage-faced megafauna, because it's story time.

What Any Dead Thing Wants by Amy Ogden, read by Isaac Harwood.

The third week of a planetary exorcism is the hardest.

At least if the planet in question has megafauna to deal with.

Enthusiasm wanes even faster on worlds that never evolved past microbes.

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