Escape Pod 769: Deal

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Deal By Eris Young Beulah wonders what it would be like to touch the Visitor. Oil-slick iridescent, it is tennis ball-sized and scaled with an animated crystalline skin—or shell—or carapace. It floats, stationary, a foot above the rug in the corner of the living room. Its surface changes by the second, rippling back and forth as if stroked by an invisible hand. If she were to run her fingers—gently, gently—over its surface, would it be keratinous, like an iguana? Or feathery? Would it be warm to the touch? Kim is still behind her somewhere, hovering in the hallway. Get it out, was all she had said, face white as saguaro blossom in the dim mudroom. Beulah pulled on her jacket, then pulled it off again. “Babe, I have to go to class. Can’t you—” Kim shook her head, “Uh-uh. Please.” She had been close to tears, almost hyperventilating. Now, muffled by the wall between hall and living room, Her voice is shaky but a bit firmer. “Is it out?” If Beulah turns she can just see a sliver of Kim’s shoulder, her pilly cardigan, the electric pink tips of her hair. Her face is now hidden. “It takes a minute, you know that.” Beulah crouches, knees popping, to get a better look, steadying herself on the coffee table. “How’d you get in here, huh?”

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0:21.6	plus access VODs of past broadcasts. Escape-Pod, episode 769. Deal. By Eris Young. Deal by Eris Young Oh, Hi there and welcome to a skate pod. I'm your host and co-editor Mer Lafferty. Today we're bringing you
1:14.8	Deal by Eris Young. Eris Young is based in Scotland.
1:19.7	Their work has appeared in magazines including Shoreline of Infinity and Fusion Fragment,
1:25.0	as well as Anthologies such as Uncanny Bodies from Lula Press,
1:29.0	and we were always here from 404 Inc.
1:32.0	Their first non-fiction book, They Them There, a Guide to Non-binary Gender Identities, was published
1:37.9	by Jessica Kingsley Publishing in 2019.
1:41.9	They were a 2020 recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award.
1:47.0	It's narrated by Sandra Espininza.
1:57.0	Sandra is a New York born and raised voice actress. Bilingual with a background in English literature and writing.
2:00.0	She's always been fascinated with what people were saying and the broad palette of ways to say it.
2:05.2	After a childhood where video games were banned from the house, she 180ed so hard that she's finally in them and never
2:11.2	leaving. Some games Sanders voiced for include
2:14.4	braw-stars, Heroes of Newworth, Marvel's Avengers Academy, and the critically
2:20.8	acclaimed Wabjet eye games point- point and click adventure game unavowed.
2:25.0	Get to know her at dustyold roses.com.
2:28.0	This is an Escape Pot Original and Eres Young's first pro sail.
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