EscapeBOD, Episode 1229, Graduated Justice, and Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is Graduated Justice, an Amelia Lee mystery by Mina Chang.

It was originally published in TransLuner Travelers Lounge in February 2025.

Mina Chang hosts Electric Sheep SF and publishes Microverse Recommended Reading.

Her short fiction has been selected for the Locust recommended reading list,

the BSFA Longlist,

W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction America,

and several Best of Flash anthologies.

Her poetry has received an honorable mention in the Reesling Awards.

Find her at Mina Chang.com or on Blue Sky at Mina Chang.

Our narrator, Amanda Ching, is a mailman. Neither rain nor snow nor elder gods can stop her.

Now, get ready for a disabled detective to make sure justice is served, because it's story time.

Graduated Justice in Amelia Lee Mystery mystery by Mina Chang, narrated by Amanda Ching.

I was leaning against my desk in the Mars Dome Cop Shop, rubbing nanore repair gel on my prosthetic leg when I caught the rookie staring at me, or rather, staring at my leg.

Go ahead, kid, get it out of your system, I said.

Sorry, detective Lee, but, uh, your leg doesn't really talk, does it? That's just an old precinct legend.

Rookies always ask about it, eventually, but they usually avoid the old word. I eased into my chair and

spread a thin layer of gel around the bioplastic shin casing. First, my leg has a name. It's Charlie.

Got him after a smuggling bust went sideways, probably before you were born. I squeezed more gel on a pencil and shoved it under the kneecap.

The kid cringed. I guess I couldn't blame him. Charlie looks pretty much like a natural biological leg,

except for the scuffs and dents and the thin orange stripe that runs from heel pad to hip socket.

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