Escape Pod 767: Shadowboxer (Flashback Friday)

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Shadowboxer (Excerpt) By Paul Di Filippo Generally speaking, I need only three minutes of concentrated attention to kill someone by staring at them. If I’m feeling under the weather, or my mind is preoccupied with other matters–you know how your mind can obsess about trivial things sometimes–it might take five minutes for my power to have its effect. On the other hand, if I focus intensely on my victim I can get the job done in as little as ninety seconds. …Now the nation is at war. Or so we’re told. I guess that changes everything. A person like me becomes much more important.

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0:25.0	Escape-bod, episode 767. Flashback Friday. Shadow Boxer.
0:36.2	By Paul D. Felipeo. Oh, Hi, welcome to the first flashback Friday of 2021. Once a month I, you're in Rapid House
1:04.1	Alister, will lead you deep into the archives of a skate pod to something
1:07.8	truly amazing. Kicking off this year we have the fantastic Shadowboxer by Paul
1:12.4	De Philippo, originally released on 15th June 2006.
1:16.2	It was produced and hosted by Sarah Eelie, read by Scott Fletcher and written by Paul de Philipo.
1:21.2	You can find full biographical details for all at the Escapeod website.
1:25.2	But in the meantime, it's story time. Shadowboxer by Paul De Philippo
1:41.0	Generally speaking, I only need three minutes of concentrated attention to kill someone by staring at them.
1:48.0	If I'm feeling under the weather or my mind is preoccupied with other matters. You know how your mind can
1:54.5	obsess about trivial things sometimes. It might take five minutes for my power to
1:59.6	have its effect. On the other hand, if I focus intensely on my victim, I can get the job done in as little
2:07.5	as 90 seconds.
2:10.4	Another factor determining the speediness of my power is the constitution of my victim.
2:16.1	As you might imagine, the elderly and the frail and ailing require less effort to kill than
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