Escape POD, Episode, episode 617, A Cure for homesickness.

By S. L. Scott, welcome to Artemis Rising. I'm going to Hello and it to Escape Pod. I'm Mer Lafferty, your host for this week.

And it's the first week of Artemis Rising.

This month, all of the Escape Artist Podcasts will feature stories by women,

people who identify as women, and non-binary people.

I have the honor of hosting the first episode.

And while I'm hosting, I am not serving as co-editor.

That is because for Artemis Rising, Divy and I have stepped back and let our associate editors, Laura Perlman and

SK Nash pick the stories for you.

So this week's story is A Cure for Homesickness by S.L. Scott is a digital archivist and content writer for the

Masters degree in Professional Writing and Publishing. She's been published in magazines such

as Bewildering Stories and Wild Musette, as well as several anthologies, including

Gothic fantasy agents and spies, mirrors and thorns, and eyes that pour forth and other stories. Currently she writes about the Craft World Building in her blog Woman in the Red Room.

It's narrated for us by Eric Luke. Eric Luke is a screenwriter of several films and his current project is Interference, a meta horror audio book about an audio

book that kills. You can find more about him at quillhammer.com. Now I may be soft and squishy but I am here for you and I'm here to bring you story time.

A Cure for Home Sickness by S.L. Scott.

As read by Eric Luke.

Krem was dead.

Well, not exactly yet. But he knew death when he saw it, and the scavenger holding a plasma

shotgun three feet from his face sure looked like death. The torque might have exoskeleton strong enough to keep hardened steel from piercing,

but that wouldn't stop the ensuing explosions from ripping him apart.

They'd just be nice big chunks instead of tiny pieces. Not that Krem was surprised

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