Escape! Some things I probably should have mentioned earlier by Laura Perlman. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

This week we bring you a live recording from WorldCon 2018 of some things I probably should have mentioned earlier by Laura Perlman.

The story was originally published in Mothership Zeta in May 2016 and was also reprinted at Cast of Wonders.

We are pleased to have Setu Uzume as our guest host for this episode.

Setu's commentary was read live at WorldCon,

and that recording will follow this week's story as usual.

Laura Perlman's work has appeared or is forthckered. usual. show and a handful of other places.

She has a sadly neglected blog called Unlikely Explanations and a Tumblr of Things Her Cats

have dropped in their water bowl.

When she's not writing, doing software development,

or wrangling the aforementioned cats,

she reads slush for Escape Pod.

You can find her on Twitter at Laura's Bad Ideas.

Satsu Usame is the assistant editor at Podcastle.

They spent their formative years in and out of dojos, studied Taoism and

swordplay at a monastery in rural China, and is now learning how to shoot arrows from

horseback. While they have dabbled in many arts,

only writing and martial arts seem to have stuck. Now get ready to act like a human because it's story time.

Some things I probably should have mentioned earlier by Laura Perlman.

Dear Kevin, I'm sorry I waited so long to tell you this, but I really hate your vacation cabin.

Everything about it creeps me out. The sound of crickets at

night makes my skin crawl. They sound like impending doom, like a critical piece of

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