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Episode, episode 698, points of origin, by Marissa Lingon. I'm going to Hello and welcome to a Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I am your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you points of origin by Marissa Lingan

This story first appeared in Tor.com.

Marissa Lingan writes short science fiction and fantasy.

She lives in the Minneapolis suburbs with

two large men and one small dog. Your narrator this week is Eric Luke. Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film Explorers, which is currently in development as a remake.

The comic books, Ghost and Wonder Woman, and wrote and directed the not quite human films for Disney TV.

His current project, Interference, a meta horror audio book about an audio book that kills, is a bestseller on audible.com.

So get ready to go ice skating under the domes because it's Story Time.

Points of Origin by Marissa Lingan,

narrated by Eric Luke.

Most people who have reached their 80s without raising children have every right to believe

that they will go on not raising them and Judith and I were no

different until the day they turned up with a social worker neatly scrubbed and

pressed inside their vac suits and carrying cases with all their remaining worldly possessions.

There were three of them, like stair steps.

Their black hair cut in fringes across their foreheads, and their dark eyes shining out

disconcertingly familiar at me. But it wasn't until the social worker said,

Mr. Chow and Ms. Goldstein, these are your grandchildren, Enid, Richard, and Harry.

That I remembered sheepishly about the genes we had given all those years ago to that nice couple from new new Prague

before they left for the uert cloud.

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