Escape Pod 787: Ascend, Exalt, Love, Propagate, Rise!

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Ascend, Exalt, Love, Propagate, Rise! By Sarah Kumari The Glory smolders through Jehanne's bloodstream, pulsing its encouragement. The rivals who have survived along with him–officially 'Fellow Eminents' now that selection is over–twitch and moan as their addiction is quenched. Within minutes they are preening, flexing their muscles, stomping, or singing to Mother Elethra. Jehanne's training allows him to douse the call, to batter it down with a deliberate shifting of delta waves. He visualizes his metabolism disassembling the compound at industrial speed. This works for the moment. In the crowd that fills the EverReach company spaceship, Indrine, the rebel woman pretending to be Jehanne's mother, clutches the hand of the girl playing his sister. They are mixed in with the family and friends of the other Eminents along with villagers and unrelated Fervents that have made the pilgrimage. The crowd prays collectively, feverish in their good fortune, for the EverReach company will reward the kin of Eminents for two generations. If Jehanne succeeds in his true mission, his family will be slaughtered.

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0:27.0	Learning. The following story contains minor descriptions of sex and has an allusion to
0:32.2	sexual assault.
0:34.0	A skateboard episode 787. Assend, exult, love, propagate, rise. My sailor can mine.
0:54.0	Hi there. Welcome to a skatepot. I'm your host and co-editor, Merlapherty. Today we
1:20.0	bring you Ascend, Exult, Love, Propagate, Rise by Sarah Kumari. Sarah Kumari is a former
1:28.5	scientist who now organizes conferences and recruits PhD students at a research institution.
1:34.8	She lives in Surrey, England, engaging in lightsaber battles and time travel debates with
1:39.2	her two boys. Sarah writes speculative and YA fiction in the snatches of time between
1:44.4	adulty stuff. She is ecstatic to be sharing oxygen with the authors in the skate pod and
1:49.9	hopes her other weird stories and novels will find homes one day. You can find her on Twitter
1:55.4	at Sarah with an H underscore K underscore J. It's narrated for us by Hollis Monroe. Hollis
2:03.8	Monroe is an award-winning radio producer, opera and jazz singer and Shakespearean. He
2:09.3	served as executive producer and also read for Iowa Public Radio's The Book Club for many
2:14.6	years and is an active voice actor, MC and singer. This is an escape pod original and Sarah
2:24.3	Kumari's first sale. So make sure all your plants are watered and getting enough light
2:30.2	because it's story time. Assend, Exult, Love, Propagate, Rise by Sarah Kumari.
2:39.3	Narrated by Hollis Monroe. The glory smolders through Jan's bloodstream, pulsing its encouragement.
2:48.4	The rivals who have survived along with him officially fellow eminents now that selection is over,
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