Escape Pod 751: More Than Simple Steel

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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More Than Simple Steel By Aimee Ogden Micah misses the adults most when he wakes up each morning. Part of him is still waiting for the buzz of an alarm clock and the smell of toaster waffles to coax him up from sleep. But it's been four years, and there is no mother to nudge him awake. He sits up on his mattress and scratches crust from his eyes. The bedsheets smell like sweat and grass; is it laundry day today? He's the closest thing to an adult under the roof of Grand Avenue Elementary, and if he says it's laundry day, then it will be. Clothes on, shoes on. Everyone has to wear shoes all the time. That's the rule, ever since Marco got tetanus last year and they all thought he was going to die. It was the worst sickness they'd seen since the flops cleared out all the adults. Micah doesn't know what he'll do when something worse sweeps through. The door of the teachers' lounge--he can't stop thinking of it as the teachers' lounge, even though there are no teachers here and not much time for lounging--clicks quietly shut behind him. Then he moves down the hallway, opening doors, calling names. "Fabián, garden. Jack, laundry. Vee, babysitting. Carrie, fishing."

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0:00.0	Escape Pot, episode 751.
0:08.4	More than simple steel. By Amy Ogden. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:45.0	I'm Premie Muhammad, your host for this episode.
0:48.0	I'm a scientist and a short story writer and also author of recent sci-fi fantasy horror novel beneath the rising out now
0:57.4	I'm also an associate editor at Escape POD as well as a social media manager so if you see the Twitter account trying to reason with the
1:05.5	podcastle dragon, that may be me. This is my first time hosting. Our story this week is More Than Simple Steel by Amy Ogden, narrated by Peter Adrian Baravish.
1:18.0	This is an Escape Cod original.
1:21.0	Amy Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester.
1:26.1	Now she writes stories about sad astronauts and angry princesses.
1:30.8	She also co- edits Trans Lunar Travellers Lounge, a
1:34.1	zine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction.
1:37.8	Her debut Rovella,
1:39.4	Son, Daughters, C.Daughters, is forthcoming from Tor dot com in 2021 and a space adventure novella called
1:47.0	Local Star will be out with Interceller Flight Press later next year. Peter Adrian Beardesh is a writer, editor, musician, and the audio producer for
1:58.5	podcastel.
1:59.5	He has narrated for podcastel, escape Pod, and Beneath Seeless skies.
2:05.0	When he isn't crafting, cruding, or otherwise consuming stories,
2:10.0	you'll most likely find Peter Hurfling down a mountain, sipping English breakfast, and brushing up on his farcy, though usually not all at once. You can read his sporadic ramblings at Peter Adrian Barvesh dot com or on Twitter at p a bearvesh
2:29.2	now get ready to enter a world of children left with no easy choices because it's story time.
2:38.1	More than Simple Steel by Amy Ogden.
2:43.0	Micah misses the adults most when he wakes up each morning.
2:47.0	Part of him is still waiting for the buzz of an alarm clock and the smell of toaster waffles to coax him up from sleep.
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