Please note that today's episode contains mentions of death, including suicide,

as well as adult topics that might be inappropriate for younger audience members.

EscapePod Episode 797

Flashback Flash from the Vault Special

Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Divya, co-editor of the pod and one of your four hosts for this episode.

A quick note upfront for any authors who might be listening.

EscapePod General submissions will be reopening in September and this time we're going with a theme.

Joy!

For complete details, please see the announcement on our website, escapePod.org.

This week we bring you a special flash-length flashback edition, with four very short stories selected by myself,

Merlaferty, Benjamin Kinney and Alistair Stewart.

First up is My Selection, Wedding the Bed, by Heather Shaw narrated by Anna Ealy.

The story was first published in EscapePod's inaugural year back in October 2005.

Heather Shaw is a writer, editor, gardener, and iKidoka living in Berkeley, California, with her husband and son.

She's had her work appear in strange horizons, polyphony, the year's best fantasy, escapePod, and other nice places.

Anna Ealy was the wife of EscapePod founder Sarah Ealy and a popular recurring narrator.

Now, get ready to float like you mean it, because it's story time.

Wedding the Bed by Heather Shaw

When the floods came, all of us kids climbed into bed and pulled the covers up over our heads, while our parents rushed about trying to do something to stop it.

As the water level rose, we could fill the beds, lift off the floor, floating through our houses, bumping down our hallways and out our front doors.

We sat up in bed and waved to one another as our beds merged into the canal that now flowed between our houses.

We shrieked and giggled as our beds spun and bumped along with the swirling water.

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