Escape Pod 758: The Sun From Both Sides (Part 2 of 3)

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Sun From Both Sides (Part 2 of 3) By R.S.A. Garcia (Continued from Part 1 - Escape Pod episode 757) Once, a man left his home to find his home. It was not an easy journey, but going home never is. He gave up all that he was, and all he knew, to experience a great many things. Genuine smiles and thoughtless malice. Shared purpose and individual failure. And one bright day, in the middle of a river, he found peace. The first true peace in his long life. He learned that a home could be shared, and that in finding his home, he'd become another's. That was more than enough to bury the fears and chase away the memories. More than enough to keep the world and its cares far, far away. Until the day he came home, and the world was sitting at their table, brushing invisible dust from white diaphanous trousers with immaculately trimmed and painted fingers. The Knight rose from the wooden chair it had been seated on, the smooth white surface of its full-mask catching the evening light. A pin-hole speaker made a glowing blue circle in the centre of the lower half of the mask, and tinted slits hid the Knight's eyes.

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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,
0:10.7	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.
0:24.0	Escape pod, episode 758.
0:35.0	The Sun from both sides, part 2 of 3.
0:38.0	By RSA Garcia. Yeah. I'm
1:09.7	Divia your host for this episode.
1:13.0	This week I bring you part two of three of The Sun From Both Sides by RSA Garcia.
1:19.8	It was first published by Clark's World magazine in May 2019.
1:25.0	RSA lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many dogs.
1:31.0	Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from publishers
1:37.3	weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Sci-Fi Fantasy horror e-book from the Independent Publishers Awards in 2015.
1:46.7	She has published short fiction in international magazines, including Clark's World,
1:51.6	Abyss and Apex,
1:53.0	Under National magazine, and several anthologies.
1:57.0	Her newest story, Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth,
2:01.0	is available now in the Devil's Ways anthology edited by Anna Kishina.
2:07.0	Your narrator this week is Hollis Munro. Hollis is an award-winning radio producer, opera and jazz singer and Shakespearean.
2:17.0	He served as executive producer and also read for Iowa Public Radio's The Book Club for many years and is an active
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