Escape Pod 753: Chasing the Start (Part 2)

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Chasing the Start (Part 2) by Evan Marcroft ͼ-Sa, this is a bad fucking idea-ͽ Sa would die to admit it, but she must agree. This was perhaps a bit much for squashing a spider. The air boils with radiation. The sky is all storm, great scarified burls of fulgurant cloud lumped into screaming faces. Mushroom clouds bloom all along the horizon where cylinders of pure, fabbed uranium have been dropped from outside the planetoid, blasting starry craters in its shallow atmosphere, to say nothing of its crust. Warships flounder in the firmament beyond, gnawed upon by flung gobbets of surface matter gone cancerous. Sa takes it all in from the bellied-up keel of some leviathan war vessel bombarded into shapelessness, now a convenient straightaway. She has chosen her weapon a little too well. ͼ-It’s okay to pull the cord. Everyone does it once-ͽ

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0:00.0	Escape
0:07.0	Episode, episode 753, chasing the start, by Evan Markroft. Part 2 of 2. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escapeod your weekly science fiction podcast. I am your host this week,
0:46.2	Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you part two of Chasing the Start by Evan Markcroft. Part one appeared last week and this is the second and final part.
0:59.6	This story first appeared in Strange Horizons.
1:04.2	Evan Markroft is an up-and-coming speculative and horror fiction author from California,
1:09.3	currently based out of Chicago.
1:11.7	His works have appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Starship
1:16.8	Sofa, and Sudopod. You can follow him on Twitter at Evan, underscore Markraft.
1:25.1	Your narrator this week is Stephanie Malia Morris.
1:28.6	Stephanie Malia Morris is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop, recipient of the Octavia E Butler Memorial
1:36.2	Scholarship Award, and a 2019 Kambulio Fow.
1:41.4	Her short fiction has appeared in Faya, Apex magazine, Nightmare, and Pseudopod.
1:45.6	She has narrated short fiction for the escape artist podcasts, uncanny, and beneath ceaseless skies.
1:53.8	You can find her online at Stephanie Malia Morris.
1:58.4	or on Twitter at S. Malia Morris. Your audio producer this week is Summer Brooks. So get ready to
2:07.1	consider pulling the Riccord because it's Story Time. Chasing the Start Part 2 of 2 by Evan Marcroft, narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
2:27.0	Saw, this is a bad fucking idea.
2:31.0	Saw would die to admit it, but she must agree. This was perhaps a bit much for squashing a spider.
2:38.8	The air boils with radiation. The sky is all storm, great scarified burles of fulgrant cloud lumped into screaming faces.
2:50.0	Mushroom clouds bloom all along the horizon where cylinders of pure fab uranium have been dropped from outside the planetoid,
2:59.0	blasting starry craters in its shallow atmosphere to say nothing of its crust.
3:05.9	Warships flounder in the firmament beyond, gnawed upon by flung
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