Escape Pod 776: Tloque Nahuaque

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Tloque Nahuaque By Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas, translated by Silvia Moreno-Garcia If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. —Carl Sagan I—The Particle Accelerator They built an underground temple. A well of Babel sinking into the gloomy ground at 175 metres of depth. They wanted, like the Biblical architects, to know the unknowable, to discover the origin, reproduce Creation. The desire to unravel the nature of the Everything floated permanently in the controlled environment of the laboratory. Hundreds of fans and machines emitted a constant buzzing, which the investigators called the “silence of the abyss”. This, combined with the smell of burnt iron, gave the ominous sensation of finding oneself in space. Doctor Migdal lay upon a nest made of coloured cables and, with eyes closed, fantasised that his body, weightless, floated, pushed by the breeze of the ventilation. Sometimes, he would imagine that he was being attracted by a very narrow tube, a cafeteria straw, the ink container of a pen, or a bleeding artery. His feet, near the edge of the conduit, would feel a titanic weight that would pull him and make him push through the small space. Migdal could see how he would turn into a thick strand of subatomic particles that would extend forever.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Brent Lambert, guest editor for Escape Pod's Black Future Mom Special
0:05.7	Event, and I'm hyped to read your science fiction stories.
0:09.6	Submissions are open through the end of March, find all the details at escapepod.org,
0:14.9	looking forward to seeing your submissions.
0:25.4	Escape Pod, Episode 776.
0:29.4	Till Okay Narwa K.
0:31.6	By Nanny Geraldine Garcia-Roses.
0:34.4	Translated by Sylvia Moreno-Gasia.
0:56.4	Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
1:00.4	I'm Natalie Bus, your host fitness episode on Associate Editor for Escape Pod in the first time host.
1:06.4	Our story this week is Till Okay Narwa K.
1:09.4	by Nanny Geraldine Garcia-Roses, and a-rated by Carlo Yegor Le Tobigas.
1:14.4	This story was originally published at Future Lovecraft Internet Free Press in 2011 and translated
1:20.4	from Spanish by Sylvia Moreno Garcia.
1:23.4	Natalie Geraldine Garcia-Roses is an Mexican immigrant and a graduate in the Clarean West Class of 2019.
1:30.4	A short fiction has appeared or is worth coming in Clarksville, Nightmare, the world fantasy
1:36.4	award-winning anthology, shoe-walks and shadows, and elsewhere.
1:40.4	Carlo Yegor Le Tobigas is originally from the enchanting island of Puerto Rico, but moved
1:47.4	to Baltimore some years back.
1:49.4	This has appeared in Nature Futures, Galaxy's Edge, and several other venues.
1:53.4	This is happily among the rolling hills of rural Maryland, this partner, and one very odd
1:58.4	dog.
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