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which stories will reach escape velocity and which will stay grounded. You be the judge. Escape Pod, episode 626. Fire Road The Cold Wind, by Amy Ogden. And the 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. Fire Road The Cold Wind by Amy Ogden. This story first appeared in the Sachtilager.

Amy Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester.

Now she writes stories about sad astronauts and angry princesses.

Her work can also be found in Shimmer, Apex, and diabolical plots, and forthcoming in analog.

Your narrator this week is Peter Adrian Beervesh.

Peter Adrian Beervesh.

Peter Adrian Beervesh writes space fantasy stories inspired by Safavide era Iran and songs about the techno

apocalypse. He is an associate editor for a skate pod and the Audio Producer for Podcastal.

When he isn't riding or editing, he'll most likely find Peter hurtling down a mountain, sipping English

breakfast, and brushing up on his farcy, though usually

not all at once.

You can find his sporadic ramblings at Peter Adrian Beravish.com and on Twitter at PA Baravesh.

This story has a content warning for sexual content.

So get ready to prepare for warning for sexual content.

So get ready to prepare for a Shell Star dive because it's story time. Fire Road the cold wind by Amy Ogden. The brown woman came to

vrow from the sky without a name of her own. Piaaku knew that she was

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