Escape Pod, episode 731. For whatever we lose by Jennifer Donahue. I'm going to do. Hello and welcome to a skate, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Phoebe Barton, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is For Whatever We Lose by Jennifer R Donahue. It was first published in

issue 37 of Luna Station Quarterly in 2019. Jennifer R Donahoe grew up at the Jersey Shore and now lives in New York with her husband and their Doberman.

Though she got a bachelor's degree in psychology, she has always wanted to write.

She currently works at her local public library, where she also facilitates a writing workshop.

Her work has appeared in a skate pod, syntax and

salt, Dream Forge, and elsewhere. Her Cyberpunk Novella Run with Hunted, and its sequel Run with the Hunted 2,

Control-Al-D Delete, are available on Amazon and many digital platforms.

Narrator Amy H. Sturgis holds a PhD in intellectual history and specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and indigenous American Studies.

She is staff on the Starship sofa podcast,

editor-in-chief of Hokus-Pokus Comics,

and faculty at Lenoir Ryan University and Signum University.

She lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Virginia in the United States.

Her website is Amy H. Sturgis.com. Now make sure you're strapped into your tin

can of a spaceship because it's Story Time.

For whatever we lose, by Jennifer R Donahue, narrated by Amy H Sturgis.

I lied to meet an astronaut.

Or my dad did, which is the same thing.

I was supposed to be at least eight years old. or my dad did, which is the same thing.

I was supposed to be at least eight years old to attend,

and I was only six, but the tallest in my class.

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