Escape Pod, episode 747. Flash from the Vault. I'm going to do. Hi there and welcome to the third and final term of Escape Pod Summer School, where we post some

of our favorite Flash Fiction from The Vault with a new perspective.

I'm Divia, co-editor of the pod and your instructor for this class.

This episode also concludes our summer flashback series.

We'll be back next week with the best in original and reprint science fiction.

Today I bring you three flash episodes from long, long ago.

First up is Standards by Richard K. Lyon. Then we have Paradox by Scott Jansons, and finally Stuck in an elevator

with Mandy Patinkin by Kitty Myers. Our first author, Richard K. Lyon, was by profession a semi-retired research

scientist in chemical kinetics applied to air pollution problems. By avocation he was a second generation science

fiction fan and first generation writer. On his own he sold quite a few stories

to analog and other magazines.

With Andy Offit, he did three Tiana books and a novel that was serialized in analog called

Rails Across the Galaxy.

Your narrator, Frank Key, was a British writer, blogger, and broadcaster best known for his self-published

short story collections and his long-running radio series, Hooting Yard on the air,

which was broadcast weekly on Residence FM,

from April 2004 to September 2019

when he passed away.

Frank co-founded the Malice of Forethought Press with Max de Charnay

and published the fiction of Ellis Sharp.

Now, get ready to visit 2008 because it's story time.

Standards by Richard K. Lyon

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