Escape Pod 750: The Anatomy of Miracles

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Anatomy of Miracles by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko For half a song every evening, the sunsets reminded the miracle worker of home. The hills were reddish-brown in daylight, but when the two suns, one after the other, slipped below the horizon, they came alive with purple highlights. He could almost pretend the hills were blue, instead, that the sea in the distance was true water and not liquid methane. On those occasions, he leaned back on his rear limb-pairs and, from a great distance, heard the timekeepers singing time. He didn’t know what the window was made of. He couldn’t have said there was a window there at all, but for the fact he didn’t suffocate. He understood why his masters always sent him to inhospitable planets. His work was imprecise. It was safer that way. But this was the first planet that had been beautiful, the first that had brought the old songs ringing back. It was different. He felt it in his bones. By first dawn, the hills were red again, and he was merely an old man who had not seen home in a long, long time.

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0:32.0	Episode episode 750 The Anatomy of Miracles
0:37.0	by Philip Haida Lottcheck Zorka. Zorko. Okay. And the Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction
1:10.6	podcast I am your host this week Tina Connolly and I am your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you the
1:16.6	anatomy of miracles by Philip Pygarde or nocheorko. The story is original to escape by it.
1:27.0	Philip Haidar or Noishek Zorko is a Slovenian-born writer and translator.
1:32.0	He grew up in Slovenia, Ireland, Australia, and the UK and
1:35.6	currently resides just outside Portland, Maine. He understands that his name is
1:41.0	a bit confusing and would like you to know that.
1:44.0	Dornoshek Zorko is the surname.
1:47.0	He attended Clarion West in 2019,
1:50.0	and his work has previously appeared in Clark's World magazine.
1:53.0	You can find him online at Philip HDZ.com
1:58.0	or on Twitter at Philip HDZ.
2:01.0	Your narrators this week are SB Divia and David D Levine.
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