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Episode, Episode, episode 664, The Day Girl girl by Rivka Raphael. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pot your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you

The Day Girl byifka Raphael.

The story is original to escape part.

Rifka Raphael lives in Sydney, Australia,

where she writes speculative fiction about queer women, Jewish

women, cyborg futures, and hope and dystopias.

Her short stories have been published in defying doomsday, cross genres resist fascism, and elsewhere.

She is co-editor of Feminist Robot Ethology Mother of Invention, which is available at Twof Planet Press.com.

Your narrator this week, Pamela Kavillian is a reader who has been falling hard into books her entire life. She narrates here on a skate pod and hosts story time on

twitch every school night. As Starstrider she reads classic fiction and hopes

you'll be as reluctant to put down your headphones as she is to put

down the pages. So get ready to test the psychometer because it's story time.

The Day Girl by Rifka Raphael.

Mother never wanted me to take the meteorology job. Those high fences and secret regulations, she said.

There's something shady about Rubin's medicines.

Dear mother's tone was sarcastic when she wished it.

Mark my words, Genevieve, dull work too,

and why don't they use automatants?

But it was that... don't they use automatons?

But it was that or go in as a governess or ladies made,

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