Escape Pod 800: Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death By N.K. Jemisin The intel is good. It had better be; three women died to get it to us. I tuck away the binoculars and crawl back from the window long enough to hand-signal my girls. Fire team moves up, drop team on my mark, support to hold position and watch our flank. The enemy might have nothing but mercs for security, but their bullets punch holes same as real soldiers’, and some of ’em are hungry enough to be competent. We’re hungrier, though. Shauntay’s got the glass cutter ready. I’m carrying the real payload, slung across my torso and back in a big canteen. We should have two or three of these, since redundancy increases our success projections, but I won’t let anyone else take the risk. The other ladies have barrels cracked and ready to drop. The operation should be simple and quick—get in, drop it like it’s hot, get out. This goes wrong, it’s on me. It won’t go wrong.

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0:00.0	Warning, the story contains mature content that may not be appropriate for listeners under 13.
0:15.0	EscapePod Episode 800.
0:18.0	Give me cornbread or give me death by N.K. Jemisin.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:53.0	I'm Vivia, your host for Episode 800.
0:58.0	This marks one of our decimal system milestones, 800 episodes.
1:03.0	I'll give you a second to think about that.
1:05.0	In four more years, we're going to hit a thousand, and I have no doubt we'll get there.
1:12.0	It's kind of mind-boggling to think of keeping anything going on a weekly basis for this long.
1:18.0	This is one tough pod.
1:20.0	Our crew has changed.
1:22.0	We've had a variety of people in the captain's chair.
1:25.0	We've weathered some pretty close calls when our future was far from certain,
1:30.0	but we've come through it intact.
1:33.0	We look at the scratches on our hull with pride.
1:36.0	They mark our toughness and the determination of all of you in keeping us going.
1:42.0	You are the reason we're still here, and the reason we keep making our trips around the sun.
1:48.0	And I don't just mean monetarily, I mean spiritually.
1:52.0	What is a podcast without its audience, or a digital zine without its readers?
1:58.0	Without all of you, we'd be shouting into the void.
2:02.0	So thank you for 16 years of support and love, through financial ups and downs,
2:08.0	through award nominations and a print anthology.
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