Escape Pod 795: Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right By Sarah Gailey Vladislav Argyle rested his head on the cool titanium surface of the defendant’s table. It dipped a little under the sudden weight of his skull, then hummed as the antigrav lifts adjusted their power to accommodate their new burden. “Mr. Argyle? Are you alright?” The bandage-swathed tip of Argyle’s client’s primary tentacle crackled near his ear, and he knew that she was touching his temple in a gesture of inquiry. The people of Ursa Vibrania were very skull-oriented in their communications. It was sweet, really, how they wanted to know what was happening inside every other endoskeletal vertebrate creature’s head. How much they wanted to understand. Argyle clenched his fists in his lap. The Vibranians were so kind, and they had trusted him to help them, and he was failing. As always. “I’m fine,” he said through his teeth. “Just a little ritual I have after opening statements.”

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0:00.0	Content Warning. This episode of EscapePod has a content warning for one scene of violence
0:06.2	and gore. I mean, it's got a tiger in it.
0:11.1	EscapePod, episode 795. Tiger Lawyer gets it right. My Sarah Galey.
0:41.1	Hi there and welcome to EscapePod. I'm your host and co-editor, Merlaferty. Today we bring you
0:56.1	Tiger Lawyer gets it right by Sarah Galey. Hugo Award winner and best selling author Sarah Galey
1:02.6	is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published
1:07.4	by Mashable and the Boston Globe. Their short fiction credits include Vice and the Atlantic.
1:12.3	Their debut in novella, River of Teeth, was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula Award finalist. Their best
1:19.1	selling adult novel debut, Magic for Liars, was published in 2019. Their most recent novel,
1:24.5	The Echo Wife, is available now. You can find links to their work at SarahGaley.com.
1:31.0	It's Narrative Forest by Trendane Sparks, who was originally born in Texas. He eventually
1:35.8	escaped and wound his way through a mystical series of jobs in the San Francisco Bay area,
1:40.5	where he has worked as a software QA tester for both graphics drivers and video games,
1:45.0	a freelance mascot performer, and several jobs on a PBS kid show. For most of his life,
1:50.5	people have told him that his voice is a pleasure to listen to. But since being a werewolf
1:55.5	phone sex operator, King of Boring, he decided to use his powers to entertain a broader audience.
2:01.4	This isn't a skatepot original, but it first ran in our 15th anniversary anthology.
2:09.2	Still available in e-book and paperback where many fine books are sold.
2:14.6	There's nothing to object to, because we still have story time.
2:32.1	Tiger lawyer gets it right by Sarah Galey, narrated by Trends Parks.
2:38.6	Vladislav Argyle rested his head on the cool titanium surface of the plaintiffs table.
2:44.6	It dipped a little under the sudden weight of his skull, then hummed as the anti-grab lift
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