Escape Pod, episode 699. Flashback Friday, a stretch of highway two lanes wide, by Sarah Pinska. I'm going to do. Hello everyone and welcome to Flashback Friday. I am as ever your host

Alistis Stewart, your Indiana Jones to the Escapeod Archives if you will

paid no attention to Commander Shepard, Garris and Rex over in the corner they They've got it covered. Let them out in a second.

Instead, what we're going to do is shine a light on one of the classics of the EP back catalogue.

And this week, that classic comes to us from Sarah Pinska. The story was originally audio produced by

Matt Weller and is read for us by David White. The initial host was me. And it was

for this broadcast on June 27th 2015. So without further ado it's

story time. A stretch of highway two lanes wide by Sarah Pinsker,

Red for you by David L White.

Andy tattooed his left forearm with Lori's name on a drunken night in his 17th year.

Lori and Andy, forever and ever, was the full text, in all capital letters done by his

best friend Susan with her homemade tattoo rig. Susan was proud as anything of that machine.

She'd made it out of 9 volt batteries and some parts

pulled from an old DVD player and a ballpoint pin.

The tattoo was ugly and hurt like hell, it turned out Lori didn't appreciate it at all.

She dumped him two weeks later just before she headed off to university.

Four years later Andy's other arm was the one that got mangled in the combine, the entire

arm up to and including his shoulder and right collarbone and everything attached.

His parents made the decision while he was still unconscious.

He woke in a hospital room in Saskatoon with a robot arm and an implant in his head.

Brain computer interface, his mother said, as if that explained everything.

She used the same voice she had used when he was five to tell him where the cattle went when

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