Escape, episode 660, hoping for Red, by Adam Knight. I'm Mer Lafferty, your co-editor. Happy

holidays. This week's story is hoping for red by Adam Knight. Adam Knight is a

speculative fiction author and public school teacher in Northern New Jersey.

He has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies,

and his first novel, a dystopian take on the education system,

titled At the Troff, is due out from 9-star press in 2019. It's narrated for us by Tina Connolly.

Tina's books include the Ironskin trilogy and the Seriously Wicked series and her novels have

been finalist for the

nebula and the Norton. Her very first Escape Pot appearance was in

number 2009 when on the eyeball floor was narrated by Norm Sherman.

Find her podcast at Toasted Cake, Toasted Cake.com, or find her at Tina Connolly.com.

This is an Escape Pot original.

So just cross off the rest of the calendar.

Get some cocoa. It's the rest of the calendar.

Get some cocoa. It's the end of the year, and it's story time.

Hoping for Red, by Adam Knight.

Vixen had just one question for the doctor.

Can you do it?

Dr. Fizwinkle smiled and patted the fur on Vixen's neck.

Outside of the office the winds whipped furiously, as they did most of the time north of the Arctic

Circle.

In the office, though, the glow of fluorescent light and the smell of

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