Escape Pot, episode 632.

Lucky Shot.

Part 1, by Jerry Meen I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Vivia your host for this episode.

Firstly, we would like to remind you that voting for the Hugo Awards is ongoing, as is voting in our very

own Flash Fiction Contest.

We encourage you to participate in either or both. You can download our Hugo Sampler packet from our

website and you can read the Flash Fiction on our community forums. Today we bring you part one of Lucky Shot by Jerry Lee, the first of a two-part story.

If, like Inigo Montoya, you hate waiting.

Don't worry, you'll get the rest next week.

Lucky Shop was first published in the desolate places

anthology and also appeared in the the collection Life Without Crows.

Please note this episode of Escape Pod mentioned suicide.

Jerry Lean lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle.

In addition to being an avid reader and an at-time sporadic writer,

she's passionate about horse racing, tea, whiskey, and art.

She has work appearing in Nature, Horse and Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Grievous Angel, Grim Dark, and others.

She's edited several anthologies for independent presses,

is finishing an urban fantasy novel,

and is a member of SFWA and HWA.

See more about her at Jerry Lean.com.

Your narrator is Alethea Contis.

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