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Episode 662, Another day in the desert.

By Mambu Guma D.N. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Vivia your host for this episode.

Our story this week is Another Day in the Desert

by Mom Boguma Dien. This is an escape pot original.

Mom Boguma Dien is a Senegalese American humanitarian living in Brooklyn New York with a fondness for tattoos,

progressive metal, and policy analysis. He is the Franco phone and US

spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society.

Another Day in the Desert is a prequel to Ogotamelli's song,

released later this year in Afro-SF, volume 3, and also a prequel to Apes and Satellite,

published by Brittle Paper in 2017.

Your narrator this week is Halima Sala. Halima is a Somali-Canadian civil engineer and

artist currently based in the US. She also co-curates an online zine, dot-bite, a zine for aliens and humans.

Her work has been exhibited in Germany and the UK.

Her zine-making and illustration, explore alienation and technology.

Now, get ready to ride your mechanical camel because it's story time.

Another day in the desert by Mom Begumet, Dien. I'll trip you first Abba. Taggadouchett teased her father as she leaped over the long stick he swung at her ankles, raising a puff of sand with her sandals, the gritty substance drifting

between her toes, and landed, folding her knees, narrowly dodging the swing of her father's Takuba saber.

She swung her stick at his knees.

He parried it with his own and hammered her with this curved sword.

The old wiry man was still strong. Her blade blocked his

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