Escape Pod 820: Tony Roomba’s Last Day on Earth

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tony Roomba's Last Day on Earth By Maria Haskins It’s Tony Roomba’s last day on Earth. After two years of working undercover as a vacuum cleaner bot on this boondock planet, he is finally heading home to the Gamma Sector, but his final day is full of challenges. He has to get out of the apartment undetected; has to reach the extraction point in time for teleportation; and he has to submit his intel-report to the Galactic Robotic Alliance (not that they’ll like it much). However, his most immediate and hairiest problem, is that he can’t get Hortense off his back. “Hortense, listen to me,” Tony says firmly, but Hortense just twitches her fluffy tail, caressing the buttons on top of his wheeled, disc-shaped body, causing him to inhale several dust bunnies. “I have to get out of here for a bit,” he wheezes, “and you’re an indoor cat. You know you’re not supposed to leave the apartment.” Neither are you, Hortense’s luminous, jade-green eyes seem to say as she purrs and gazes down at him while her lush posterior remains firmly planted on his back.

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0:00.0	A skate pod, episode 820.
0:12.0	Tony Roomba's last day on Earth.
0:15.0	Gloria Huskins.
0:40.0	Hi there and welcome to a skate pod.
0:42.0	I'm your host and co-editor, Mary Lafferty.
0:45.0	And today we bring you Tony Roomba's last day on Earth by Maria Huskins.
0:51.0	Maria Huskins is a Swedish Canadian writer and translator.
0:54.0	She writes spectral defiction and poetry and currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband,
0:59.0	two kids and a very large black dog.
1:02.0	Her work has appeared in beneath Cecil's skies, flash fiction online,
1:06.0	shimmer cast of wonder and is becoming a regular here at a skate pod.
1:11.0	It's read to you by Roderick Alst.
1:13.0	He started his journey in voice work in the U.S. Air Force,
1:16.0	where he was a popular military broadcaster for American Forces Network in Europe.
1:21.0	During the five years he served his country, he wrote, edited and voiced several radio commercials,
1:26.0	news reports and television segments.
1:29.0	After that time, he came home to Houston, Texas and continued to work in many areas of radio, TV, film and stage.
1:38.0	This was first published in Diabolical Plots November 2020.
1:44.0	So keep an eye out for Carpet French. It's story time.
1:51.0	Tony Roomba's last day on Earth by Maria Huskins.
1:56.0	Red by Roderick Alst.
2:00.0	It's Tony Roomba's last day on Earth.
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