EscapeBOD, Episode 149, Amrit by Kieran Kwasini. Thank you. I'm going to Welcome to a Skatepot, the Science Fiction Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Kieran Korsini.

Kieran is a Pushkat Prize-nominated author, with stories appearing in F&SF, Strange

Horizons, Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, and other journals.

Her work has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, Lightning Strikes, an anthology of

flash fiction by 50 Indian writers, and elsewhere, and has been translated into Spanish

and Portuguese. Your narrator for this week is Karshik Naraseman.

Karshik is a management consultant by day, and Moonlights as a one-man band with a variety of instruments,

Avina and an electric guitar.

He also enjoys writing, reading and listening to speculative fiction.

On the weekends, he pretends to be an ace pilot in a tiny

beachcraft skipper he rents from the local flying club. Adam's working audio magic. I'm on the

host spot and we are good to go. So let's meet Amrit because it's story time.

Amrit written by Kieran Kaur Saini, narrated by Kaushek Narciman.

The doorbell rang as Fox Singh lay staring into the plumbing under the kitchen sink. Go away!

He wasn't expecting anybody,

and if any of his neighbours ever rang,

it was only to complain about the volume of his television.

The joints on the peatrap looked like fox's knees felt,

crusted over with white flake,

but somehow still leaking fluids all over the cabinet.

Mr. Singh, a voice called,

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