Escape Pod, episode 741. Summer Flashback

Repo.

By Aaron Gallagher. I'm going to do. Hi, Alistair here. Welcome back to Summer School, where this month we're taking a look at how science fiction approaches one of its biggest toys or perhaps biggest canvases in worldly different ways, using flashback episodes from our extensive back catalog, and what bigger toy

is there than space, the one place capitalism has yet to ruin.

This story was originally published in 2014 and was written by Aaron Gallagher and narrated

by M. K Hobson, hosted by me and with audio production by Matt Weller.

So without further ado, we'll get into the Wisen

Y-F-Force after the story.

It's Story Time.

Repo by Aaron Gallagher

It took concentration to perform delicate work in the cumbersome gloves of the suit.

The rounded fingers were metal-tipped and bulky.

Elise painted the tips of her gloves with

luminous paint for ease when working outside. The octopus found the wires and

shorted the alarm. The device glowed green and she triggered the

manual release. The door popped, expelling a breath or two of oxygen.

Elise slipped into the airlock and closed it behind her, shutting the door on the endless

black of space.

The inside porthole looked into the cargo hold.

She glided through the cargo room with three kicks. The heads up on her helmet showed

schematics in blue. She found the environmental control room. She flipped open the airtight seal on a container holding a large

slab of green gel. She snapped open a metal vial and sprayed dark liquid onto the

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