Escape Pod 827: The Wrong Side of the Sky

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Wrong Side of the Sky By Raymond Roach There’s an old woman who lives in the desert, and who has lived in the desert a very long time. So, too, have her people, but many of them have gone, while she remains. She’s old enough that she should have a child on her back, or even a grandchild, but she doesn’t. When she was a girl, her people crossed the desert back and forth in an intricate network of traveling families, constantly intersecting; so many of them are gone, now, that the old woman can spend days at a time in perfect solitude without ever seeing another traveler cross the horizon, much less her own path. So she flies alone, the fat brown barrel of her body slung easily between wide black wings, over the desert. It isn’t an endless desert, but it’s broad enough that even from the thin cold ceiling of the sky, this woman can’t see the edges. What she’s looking for—what she finds—are the far-flung speckles of green that make constellations of the smooth and trackless sands, those points which turn a formless emptiness into meaningful space.

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0:00.0	Escape pod, Episode 827. The wrong side of the sky. By Raymond Roach.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Escape pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host this week,
0:47.0	Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you the wrong side of the sky by Raymond Roach.
0:54.0	This story is original to Escape pod. Raymond Roach has lived all over America
1:01.0	and currently conducts most of his lurking about in Indiana. He works as a welder most of the time
1:07.0	and a weirdo all of the time. We are the light to say that this story is his first
1:13.0	professional sale of what we're sure is many more to come. You can find his sci-fi romance
1:19.0	at smashwords under the profile Raymond Roach and find him on Twitter at roach underscore works.
1:28.0	Your narrator this week is Sandy Parsons. Sandy Parsons has been published in Luda Station
1:34.0	Quarterly, Enth degree, Escape pod, amazing journeys, the anthology unparalleled journeys,
1:40.0	gathered in state of imagination the world of myth and everyday fiction.
1:44.0	She has degrees in physics, molecular biophysics, and medical science, and works as unannesthetist.
1:52.0	Your audio producer this week is Adam Brott. This story has a content notification for brief depiction
2:00.0	of death and disposal of a body. So get ready to describe everything good in the world
2:07.0	because it's story time.
2:17.0	The wrong side of the sky by Raymond Roach, narrated by Sandy Parsons.
2:23.0	There's an old woman who lives in the desert and who has lived in the desert a very long time.
2:28.0	So too have her people, but many of them have gone while she remains.
2:33.0	She's old enough that she should have a child on her back, or even a grandchild, but she doesn't.
2:39.0	And she was a girl her people crossed the desert back and forth in an intricate network of traveling families, constantly intersecting.
2:46.0	So many of them are gone now that the old woman can spend days at a time in perfect solitude without ever seeing another traveler cross the horizon.
2:54.0	Which lesser on path.
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