Escape Pod 754: Where They Keep Their Promises

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Where They Keep Their Promises By B. Pladek I imagine you eating the chocolate bar. It will arrive tomorrow, I hope, though the war has disrupted the medrunners’ routes between Chicago and London. It will arrive, though. I promise. I imagine you unwrapping it, double-checking the forged postmark from your old orphanage, the forged note that says only happy birthday, since I never learned your real name. You’ll guess it’s chocolate, though it’s so expensive you’ve never tasted it before. Only copywrit people can afford chocolate. The thought gives me pause. You believe I’m copywrit now, and I’m the only person who has ever bought you sweets. If you guess the bar is from me, you might throw it away. Promise me, Fi. Promise me you’ll eat it. I look up, away from the cartel’s sleek chemlab, and out over the Chicago skyline, hazy with sunset. How dare you, you might reply if you were here. How dare you make me promise you anything.

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0:00.0	Get your hands on Escape Pod's first ever print anthology.
0:04.4	If you're listening to our podcast, you probably like our stories.
0:08.0	This book has a mix of ones you've heard before,
0:11.0	as well as brand new ones by authors like Ken Liu,
0:14.0	N. K. Jemison, Tim Pratt, and Tina Connolly.
0:18.0	Get your copy in the UK on October 20th and in the US on November 17th.
0:23.0	Escape pod, episode 754.
0:35.0	Where They Keep Their Promises.
0:38.0	By Be Play Deck. Oh, Hi there and welcome to a skate pod. I'm your host and co-editor Mer Lafferty.
1:07.5	And today we bring you where they keep their promises by B Pla deck.
1:14.1	B Plaic is a literature professor and fiction writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:19.6	It's narrated for us by Nadia Nia's.
1:22.4	Nadea is a writer, editor, and academic who teaches creative
1:25.1	writing to everyone from preschoolers to postgraduate. In 2018, she founded the Australian
1:30.4	Multilingual Writing Project, a literary journal publishing multilingual creative work.
1:35.0	When she's not working with words, she's either lifting heavy things or dancing.
1:39.0	This is an escape pod original.
1:42.0	Now don't worry if the chocolate tastes fun. This is an escape pod original.
1:42.6	Now don't worry if the chocolate tastes funny.
1:45.8	Just keep eating it because it's story time.
1:52.2	Where they keep their promises by B Pladick, narrated by Nadia Nyaz.
1:57.0	I imagine you eating the chocolate bar. It will arrive tomorrow I hope, though the war has
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