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Episode, episode 728, The Cost of Wonder, by Lea Cypress. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm goodia your host for this episode.

Our story this week is Cost of Wonder by Lea Seipas.

It was first published by Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine

show in February 2019.

Lea Seipse is the author of four young adult fantasy novels published by Harper Collins,

starting with Mistwood in 2010.

She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her family.

Your narrator this week is Tina Connolly.

Tina is the author of The Iron Skin and Seriously Wicked Series

and the collection on the eyeball floor.

She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Norton, and World Fantasy Awards.

She co-host Escape Pod, narrates for Beneath's Seeseless Guys and all for Escape Artist Podcasts

and runs the Parsick winning Flash Fiction Podcast, Toasted Cake.

Now, get ready to make some memories because it's story time.

The Cost of Wonder by Lea Cypis.

I'll keep this one, I thought, that day at the fair fair as the sunset cut a sharp line across the sky.

Gina's laughter rose in a crescendo of delighted giggles and life seemed absolutely perfect, the sparkling gift of wonder and joy.

I could never afford a memory like this, but I wasn't buying this one.

I had made it, and it was mine, and I wanted it to last forever.

I'm not going to sell this day.

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