Escape POD. Episode 647. Flashback Friday.

I'm gonna to do. Hello everyone. Welcome to Escapeod. This week we have a flashback Friday for you and the story comes to us from Marina J. Lostetta.

Marina is the author of Numenon and Numenon infinity, Lifeboats, three short stories of space travel and

epic discovery and countless short stories including this one. This originally

appeared on a skate pod as episode 501 in on July 28th 2015 and was both hosted and read by well me. So it's a real

pleasure to be back here. So without further I do, I can hand you over to

Marina's words and past me because it's story time.

I'm going to finish you off by Marina J. Lostetta. On the examining table

lounged a body, it was an unremarkable body, rather wrinkly, with an inordinate amount of hair in all the wrong places

and too few clothes for most people's liking, but otherwise nothing to write your congressman

about. The only thing special about the body was that it was dead a problem that

Detective Harry Sordido hoped would resolve itself quite soon will he just

get on with the coming back to life already? Harry huffed, checking the glowing numbers embedded in his left rest.

With his right hand, he patted his ample, middle-aged girth.

He's not the only victim I've got a question today.

I'm not sure what's the matter with

him said the medical examiner lifting the dead man's wrist between two thin fingers.

He should have let out a nice scream of life by now. He let the limb flop back to the sanitary paper.

Well what do you think it was? asked the detective.

Accidental, experimental, purposeful. What do you think he died of? You'll have to ask him to be sure. He was found

out on the sidewalk. No indications of violence are a struggle, but he does look a tad.

Flaccid.

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