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Episode, Episode 704. Failsafe.

By Tim Char Wagah. I'm going to Hello everyone and welcome to Escape Hot your weekly toast of the future.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from Tim Chihuaga.

Tim Chihuaga is a writer living in Brooklyn whose last publication was in the January-February 2019 issue of Interzone,

and is a graduate of Clarion West.

This story is read for you by our own Tina Connolly.

Tina is the author of the Iron Skin trilogy from Tori and the

collection on the Ibel floor and other stories from Fairwood Press. Her stories have appeared in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

tour.com, analog light speed beneath ceaseless skies, uncanny strange horizons,

women destroy SF and many more. Her stories and novels have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebulaula, Locust, and World Fantasy.

And narrations have appeared in audio books, and podcasts including Podcastal, Sudapod. I knows, Soudapod.

I know them, they're both cool.

Beneath useless guys.

Also cool.

John Joseph Adams, The End is Nye Series and many more,

all of which are cool.

She's one of the co-host of a skate pod and runs the Parsek winning Flash Fiction

podcast, Toasted Cake. She is originally from Lawrence, Kansas, but she now lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. So get ready because it's story time. Failsafe by Tim Chihuahua, narrated by Tina Connolly.

When the machines finally decided to replace Live, they broke her heart.

Her desk was tiny and wedged in between two massive automatons, the vial dispenser, which live called DJ, and the vial

acceptor, which live called Alvin. Above the desk were a couple of dusty posters that she had hung years ago and the big red button.

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