Hello everyone, Alistair here. Content warning up front this week folks, we are always really

cautious about how much to spoil in these, but this week's episode deals with familial bereavement.

If that rings even one of your alarm bells, wave off and we'll see you next week.

No harm, no foul. Escape Bod, episode 681, that she might fly, by Mary Ann Mock on Raj. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to this week's escape home. I'm Alistair, your guest host, and this week's story comes to us from

just all-out genre fiction rock star, Marianne Mohan Raj. Marianne wrote and edited bodies in motion, which was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards.

The Stars Change, which was a Lambda and Rainbow finalist, and 13 other titles.

Mary Ann founded Strange Horizons and was Guest of honor at Wiskon in 2010.

She is executive director of the Speculative Literature Foundation and clinical associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Other recent publications include stories for George Arra Martin's Wild Card series

and stories at Clarksworld, Asimov's, and Light Speed.

2018 titles include Survivor, an SF and Air Fantology of Stories of Trauma and Survival

and Perennial, a Breast Cancer Memoir and romance. You can find her online at

Marian Mohanrage.com and we will make sure that that link is in the show note.

Your narrator this week is Farah Nasrishi, a Pakistani-American Muslim writer and voice

actor, but in another life she's worked since as a lawyer, a video games journalist,

and an editorial assistant. She received her BA in English from Brynmore

College, her JD from Lewis and Clark Law School, and her love of weaving stories from

the Odyssey writing workshop. When she's not writing, she's probably hanging out with video game characters.

You can find her at home in Philadelphia or on Twitter at the magnificent and

this will not translate across to voice I guarantee at Far A.H.

So without further ado, let's get on with things because it's story time. might fly, written by Mary Ann Mohan Raj, narrated by Farah Nas Rishi.

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