Escape POD, episode 609, wasps make honey, by Pinellapi Evans. I'm going to Hello and welcome to a skate pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you

Wasps Make Honey by Penelope Evans.

The Story is original to escape by.

Penelope is a writer, a student, and an indie games developer.

Find her at Wonderbreath. Neo Cities.org.

Your narrator this week is Karen Bledemie.

Karen earned an NFA in Creative Writing Popular Fiction

from the University of Southern Maine.

She teaches and mentors students at Iowa State University

and serves the assistant editor of Escape artist Mothership Zeta magazine.

She's the 2016 recipient of the Horror Writers Association Mary Wollston Crafts Shelley Scholarship

and her poem's short stories in the bellows appear in more than 40 publications.

Her first novel, Swift for the Sun, an LGBT romantic adventure in 1820's Caribbean, debut from Dream Spinner in 2017.

So get ready to turn on your TV screen face because

it's Story Time. Wasp's Make Honey by

Wasps Make Honey

by Penelope Evans narrated by Karen Bovenmeyer.

The scrap heaps at the edge of the settlement are taller than the average colony building.

They offer up next to nothing good.

But the factory doesn't want either of us anymore.

Power cells don't come cheap now.

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