Escape Pod 1040: Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Author : S. C. Mills Narrator : Hugo Jackson Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1040: Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses is an Escape Pod original. Loss of an infant Sponsored by Mixtape Stories Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses by S. C. Mills We met in a public-access data booth […]

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0:00.0	Does this current dystopia got you down? Well, at the Mix Taped Stories podcast, we replace your
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0:23.0	At Mix tape stories, we're creating beautiful fiction in a disappointing timeline.
1:15.6	EscapePod, episode 140. God and Spirits are witnesses by SC Mills. Hello and welcome to a skate, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
1:19.6	Our story this week is Gods and Spirits are Witnesses by SC Mills.
1:26.6	This is an escape pod original.
1:31.2	SC Mills writes speculative fiction from Seattle, where they like to hike in the dry season
1:36.1	and train martial arts while it rains. Their work is published or forthcoming in pseudapod,
1:41.9	Cast a Wonders, Heartline Spe's spec, small wonders, and elsewhere.
1:46.9	They're a viable Paradise graduate and New York City Midnight Winter.
1:51.2	Find them at SC Mills Books.com and everywhere online at SC Mills Books.
1:58.7	Our narrator, Hugo Jackson, is an author and streamer on the east coast of the USA.
2:05.2	Born in the UK, they moved to the U.S. to be with their partner, and has since published
2:09.6	the first three novels of a five-book young adult fantasy series, The Resonets Tetralogy,
2:14.8	through inspired quill.
2:16.6	They also stream semi-regularly on Twitch,
2:19.3	username Pangolin Fox,
2:21.3	and run a yearly charity stream on World Pangolin Day
2:24.3	to raise money for one of their favorite animals,
2:27.3	the aforementioned Pangolin.
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