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Escape Pod 733: Relative Fortune

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Drama, Fiction

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Author : Brian K. Lowe Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Discuss on Forums Relative Fortune was originally published in Galaxy’s Edge in October 2018. Cursing. This is the third in a special series of space-themed stories in May 2020. Relative Fortune By Brian K. Lowe When I […]

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The Skate Pod, episode 733, relative fortune. by Brian K. Lowe. I'm your host and co-editor Mer Lafferty.

0:43.4

Today we're bringing you relative fortune by Brian Lowe. Brian Kay Lowe lives in

0:49.6

Los Angeles with his wife of many years. He is a graduate of the UCLA Creative Writing Program

0:55.0

and the Taos Toolbox Masterclass.

0:57.0

He has 50 publications, including his time travel trilogy,

1:00.0

The Stoll Future, available from Digital Science Fiction.

1:04.8

It's narrated for us by Dominic Rabram.

1:07.1

Dom is an artist living in Silver Spring, Maryland.

1:09.8

He also runs a show online called Don's Sketchcast, where he makes art while listening to music

1:14.7

and interviewing creative people. Find out more at dom-rab-run.com.

1:20.6

The story

1:23.0

originally ran in Galaxy's Edge magazine in 2018.

1:26.0

And make sure the floor is spotless and the door is locked.

1:29.0

Company's coming.

1:30.0

And it's story time.

1:32.0

Relative Fortune

1:34.0

by Brian K Lowe.

1:37.0

When I was 17, class president

1:42.0

and a year from the Space Force Academy, Dad fell into an antique gun rack

1:47.1

at work, dead from a stroke before he hit the floor.

1:51.8

I had been helping him in the pawn shop after school, partly to make some tuition

1:56.2

money and partly because it looked good on my academy application.

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