Warning. The following episode of Escape Pod does acknowledge the existence of sex and pornography and makes mention of ideation of self-harm.

Don't blame us if you can't follow good advice.

That'll make more sense after you hear the story.

Enjoy. Escape Pot, episode 613, Cat Pictures, please, by Naomi Krits. I'm going to Escape Hot. I'm Mer Lafferty, your co-editor.

This week's story is Cat Pictures, please. I'm Merlebrity, your co-editor.

This week's story is Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer.

Naomi won the 2016 Hugo Award and Locust Award for Best Short Story for This Story, which originally appeared in Clark's World.

Her short stories have also appeared in Asimov's Analog, The magazine of fantasy and

science fiction, Light Speed and Apex.

She is working on a new novel about the AI from Cat Pictures Please and its teenage

sidekick for Torteen.

Lydram Kraus is our narrator.

She has degrees in geology, speech language pathology, and speech language hearing sciences,

and currently works for a chemistry research center.

As part of her day job, she gets to produce and host sustainable nano, a podcast about nanotechnology,

sustainability, and life in science. She lives in her hometown of Minneapolis and

can be found on Twitter at Merck 47, My, 47. M-I-R-K or 7.

The story originally ran in Parks World.

Since the skateboard is free anyway,

you don't need to send anything to me

in order for me to say that it's story time.

Cat pictures,

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