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734. Mirmoration, by E. Catherine Tobola. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Benjamin C. Kinney, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is Murmuration

by E. Catherine Tovler, narrated by S.B. Divia. This story originally appeared

an intergalactic medicine show. E. Catherine Tobler has never been to Mars, but she keeps hoping.

Among others, her short fiction has appeared in Clark's World, Light Speed, and Apex magazine.

She edited the

magazine and co-edited the World Fantasy Award finalist

anthology Sword and Sonnet.

Follow her on Twitter at E.C. the Twit or her website

W W W. W. E. Catherine, that's E C A T H R I N ER-I-N-E dot com. S B-D-I-N-E-T-C-E-T-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-T-E-T-E-T-T-E-T-E-T-T-E-T-T-E-T-T-E-T-T-E. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can.

Her Novella Runtime was a Nebula Award finalist and her short stories have been

published at various magazines including Analog, uncanny, and Tor.com.

Her collection, contingency plans for the apocalypse and other situations, is out now from

Hatchet India, and her debut novel Machine Hood is forthcoming from

Saga Press in March 2021. She holds degrees in computational neuroscience and signal processing,

and she worked for 20 years as an electrical engineer

before becoming an author. You can find more at W.EFF-W-O-R-D-S-C-T-O-D-C-C-C-O-D-S-C-C-O-O-O-D-O-S-O-R-D-S dot com or on Twitter at Divia's tweets D-I-V-Y-A-S T-T-W-E-T-E-S-T-E-T-S. A S T T W E T S.B. de Via.

Cita Bal Chandran found the bone on her 41st birthday. Its pale wind scoured point emerging

from the dry Martian floodplain, like the splintered stalk of a flower.

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