Escape, episode 653, and then there were n-1 by Sarah Pinska.

Heart 2. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you part two of and then there were n minus one by Sarah Pinsker. This story first

appeared in uncanny.

Sarah Pinsker is the author of the 2015 Nebula Award winning novelette,

Our Lady of the Open Road.

Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and years bests. Her collection, sooner or later everything falls into the sea is due out in 2019.

She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and dock and can be found online at

Sarah Pinsker on Twitter.

Your narrators our very own Mer Laffin.

Mer is an author and pioneer podcaster who has been involved with escape

artists since nearly the beginning. She was one of the founding editors of Sudapod, editor of Escape Pod for a time, and then founder and editor of Mother

Shippsia, the quarterly easing for escape artists.

She is currently the co-host with Matt Wallace of Ditch Diggers a Hugo Award winner for Best fancast and the author of the Hugo finalist novel Six Wakes, and Solo, A Star Wars Story.

So get ready to see yourself in a whole new way, because it's story time.

Not me, my logic brain understood, even though some tiny part of me screamed something was wrong.

I'd made it through the entire afternoon talking with people who were more like me than an identical twin would be,

but the body was somehow more real. The others down at

dinner all had stories to remind me I was still myself, that I could still be differentiated,

absent stories and quirks, absent a person talking at me to prove we were not the same, the vacuum came rushing in.

Who was she? In what ways was she me? In what ways was she not? Who would mourn her? I tried to imagine the shape of my own

absence from my own world. It was an impossible exercise. I struggled to regain

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