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8 pod. Episode 796. 100 Seconds to Midnight. By Lauren Ring.

Hello and welcome to escape pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host

this week, Tina Connoi, and I am here to bring you 100 Seconds to Midnight by

Lauren Ring. This story is original to escape pod. Lauren Ring is a perpetually

tired Jewish lesbian who writes about possible futures for better or for worse.

Her short fiction can be found in Sudapod, Nature, and FNSF, and forthcoming in the

2022 anthology, The Reinvented Heart. When she isn't writing, expecting the

fiction, she is pursuing her career in UX design or attending to the many needs of her

cat, movement. Your narrative this week is the leafy

Acondis. New York Times best-selling author, Alife Acondis, is a princess, storm chaser,

and Saturday songwriter. Author of over 20 books and 40 short stories. Alife is the two-time

winner of the Gillette Burgess Children's Book Award and has twice been nominated for

both the Northern and Dragon Award. Alife also narrates stories for multiple award-winning

online magazines and contributes regular YA book reviews to NPR. Born in Vermont, she

currently resides on the space coast of Florida with her teddy bear chime. Find out more

about Princess Alife and her wonderful world at alifeacondis.com. Your audio producer this

week is Summer Brooks. So get ready to board the aircraft because it's story time.

100 Seconds to Midnight by Lauren Ring. Narrated by Alifeacondis. I wake up before the

plane lands. It's static dark, the kind of hazy late night where the air itself seems

full of shadows and my eyes refuse to focus. For a moment I feel as though I am stuck in

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