EscapeBod, Episode 1,035, We Who Live in the Heart, Part 1, by Kelly Robson. Hello, I Hello everyone, welcome to a skate pod.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story is the first in a three-part serial, written by Kelly Robson.

Kelly writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Her short fiction collection, alias

Space and other stories, was published by Subterranean and won the 2022 Aurora Award.

Her time travel adventure, Gods, Monsters in the Lucky Peach, won the 2019 Aurora Award and

was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon and Locus.

Her most recent book, The Fantasy Stoner Comedy High Times in the Low Parliament, was

a finalist for the Nebula Award.

In 2018, her short story, A Human Stain, won the Nebula for Best Novelette, and her story,

We Who Live in the Heart,

was a finalist for the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Award.

And that's what you're about to start hearing.

In 2017, she was a finalist for the astounding for best new writer, and in 2016, her novella

Waters of Versailles won the pre-Orora Award and was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy.

Kelly grew up in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies and as a teenager was crowned Princess of the Hinton Bighorn Rodeo.

From 2008 to 2012, she wrote the Wine and Spirits column for Chattelaine, Canada's largest

women's magazine.

Kelly consults as a creative futurist for national and international organizations, and

she and her wife, writer A.M. Dallam. Delamonaonaica, live in downtown Toronto.

Your narrator for this one is Iba Ammancast.

Iba is an award-winning writer-director based in LA,

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