The State Bod

Bodd, episode 635, after midnight at the Zap stop by Matthew Claxton. Hello, welcome to a state party, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I am your host this week, Tina Connolly and I am here to bring you after midnight at the Zapstop by Matthew Clackston.

The story is original to a skate pod.

Matthew Clackston spends is original to a skate pod. Matthew Claxton spends his days working as a newspaper reporter in the damp and verdant suburbs beyond Vancouver, British Columbia.

His short stories have appeared in Mothership Zeta,

podcastal, Asimov's Science Fiction,

and Years Best Science Fiction 34th Annual Collection.

Find him on Twitter at Oranosaurus.

Your narrator this week is Eric Luke.

Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film Explorers, which is currently in development as a remake.

The comic books, Ghost and Wonder Woman, and wrote and directed the not quite human films for Disney TV.

His current project, Interference, a metaphor audio bookeboebok that kills is a bestseller on audible.com.

This story has a content warning for Swang.

So get ready to watch the security footage because it's story time. After midnight at the Zap Stop by Matthew Claxton, narrated by Eric Luke. When the guy with the horns came in, I knew it wouldn't be a good shift.

He scowled when the zap stops doors refused to slide open for him,

ignoring the late hour's doorbell, he pounded one

meaty fist on the shatterproof polycarbonate. The young woman beside him, hands tucked

into the pouch of her hoodie, shifted uncomfortably.

I considered leaving them standing in the parking lot, but much as I'd like to have the

10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shifts uninterrupted by customers.

They were kind of the point. I hit the door release and let them in.

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