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Hi there, and welcome to Escape Pot. I'm your host and co-editor, Merlaferty. Today we

bring you part two of two of our presentation of No Strangers Anymore by EA Increasing.

EA Increasing lives in Yorkshire, England. He has sold 70-odd short stories to various

magazines and anthologies.

Pippa Alice Stevens is an actress and voiceover artist. This story originally appeared

in analog in the July August issue 2016. In part one, Princess Rose was at a summit to

discuss selling the moon to aliens, the fallorians. She befriended Dorvan, one of the diplomats,

and decided to be seen with him in public to normalize human alien contact. She's tried

channel late Princess Diana in fashion as well as outreach. Unfortunately, this is 2066,

and two things haven't changed. British media and the internet's love of judging people

based on superficial reasons. So put down that tabloid about the alien human hybrids. I'm

not so much better at tale because it's story time.

No Strangers Anymore Part Two by EA Increasing, narrated by Pippa Alice Stevens.

Royal Roundup, Rose's new boyfriend, just days after the end of her relationship with

Captain Gerald Coldward, Princess Rose has a new companion. Is this interplanetary diplomacy

or something more? Centuries have passed since the days when political alliances were

cemented with royal marriages, but perhaps the old tradition is due a revival. Was the

break up with Coldward so bitter that it sourd her on the entire human race? Conspiracy

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