The Ska Pod, episode 749. Key component by TRCbert. I'm your host and co-editor Mer Lafferting.

This week's story is key component by T.R. C. C. Bert is a speculative fiction writer from Germany.

When she's not busy writing, she can be found attempting to grow vegetables on her balcony

or looking at pictures of cute dogs.

Good use of time.

I like it.

It's narrated for us by Albrae Staff and Meevie.

Albra loves dark science fiction, cheerful horror, futuristic fairy tales, dozens of

short stories have appeared in publications including Tor.com Escape

Pod and Odyssey magazine.

He lives Minneapolis where she wrangles her children, pets, and mad scientist she keeps

in the attic. This is an escape pot original. You are and will always be what you are.

Also, it's story time. Key component by TRCbert, narrated by Aubra Staff and Weebi.

The first thing you need to understand is that you don't have a body. You are a body.

They pulled you from your mother kicking and screaming and you haven't found silence since.

You are too much. Too much to handle, too much to hide. They tell you as much, with words and in a myriad of other ways.

Too large to overlook, too obscene to see.

You fold yourself into yourself and cannot escape the confines of it.

The ship wasn't built for you like you were built for it. In most hallways you have to duck to not

hit your head on the ceiling. You avoid chairs with armrests because you know you won't

fit. You haven't slept comfortably in a bed since you

were 10 years old. Back then, you had nightmares in which you never stopped growing until you pushed against the hull of the ship,

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