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The skateboard. Episode 786. The Steel Magnolia metaphor. By Jennifer Lee Rossman.

Hi there and welcome to Escape Pod. I'm your host and co-editor for Laferty. Today we

bring you the Steel Magnolia metaphor. By Jennifer Lee Rossman. Jennifer Lee Rossman

is a science fiction geek from New York where she crochets, watches Dr. Who and threatens

to run over people with her wheelchair. It's narrated by Alora Sengupta. Alora is a voice

over artist, photographer and biomedical engineer among other roles and follows the definitely

real motto, work hard, relax hard. This is an Escape Pod original. Now we can all admit

that we've proudly made something that our parents weren't terribly impressed with. But

at the end of the day, it's story time.

The Steel Magnolia metaphor. Written by Jennifer Lee Rossman. Narrated by Alora Sengupta.

Each pedal was carefully shaped from the finest iron carbon alloy, curved delicately while

still hot, and meticulously positioned to overlap with its neighbors just so to form

a blossom. Astrid gaze lovingly at the way each pedal's razor sharp edge glinted in the

light of the setting sun. At the way her creation cast a shadow indistinguishable from the other

ornamental trees in Mama's Garden. Mama didn't look too pleased, though. She had her

fake smile on. The one she used when she knew she had to be proud of Astrid but couldn't

quite figure out how. Astrid was used to adults using that smile around her machines and

around her, in general.

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