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Hey everyone, I'm Brent Lambert, guest area for Escape Parts, Black Future Month,

special event. Submissions have been extended to the end of April and I'd love to see what

you have. So if you had a new story you were wanting to start, are you were close to finishing

one? Now's the time. Find all the details at escapepart.org. Looking forward to seeing your

submissions.

Escape Part. Episode 780. Seed Vult. By Maraikar Bailey. Part 1 of 2.

Hello and welcome to Escape Part, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Divya, your

host for this episode. Our story this week is Seed Vult by Maraikar Bailey. It was first published

by Strange Horizons in November 2019. This episode is part 1 of 2 parts. Maraikar Bailey is an

Afro-Curbian author and illustrator living in Brooklyn. Your narrator this week is Eden Royce.

Eden is a Geechy writer from South Carolina. Her short fiction can be found in various print and

online publications, including File Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction,

the year's best dark fantasy and horror, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Light Speed,

and Podcastle. Her debut middle grade Southern Gothic novel Root Magic is out now from Walden

Pond Press. Now get ready to hear tales from the Rio of the Future because it's story time.

Seed Vult. By Maraikar Bailey. Narrated by Eden Royce. One. Fire.

I should tell you about the gods, yes? Good setting for it. Here in the desert,

hunger and thirst, sharpened soul. Sharpens it enough to poke right through the side of your mind

to let in the second sight. They hitched rides like barnacles and weeds on the bellies of our

soul ships and crossed the dark. Slaveship, starship, no matter to them. Long is belong, yes.

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