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Escape pod. Episode 835. Trilia, Eros, Stoggy, Agapy, Pragma. By RSA Garcia. Part 1 of 4.

Hello, and welcome to Escape pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie

Valdez, your host for this episode. Our story this week is Ilia Eros, Stoggy, Agapy, Pragma. By

RSA Garcia. It was first published by Clarks World in December 2020. Due to length, it will be presented

in four parts. RSA Garcia writes speculative fiction and lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an

extended family and too many cats and dogs. Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Talionis,

received a star review from publishers weekly, a silver medal for best sci-fi slash fantasy slash

horror e-book from the Independent Publishers Awards in 2015, and became an Amazon bestseller.

She's published short fiction in magazines such as Clarks World Magazine, Escape pod,

and Internazunaura Magazine. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including

the critically acclaimed, the best of world sci-fi volume one, the best science fiction of the year

volume four, the apex book of world sci-fi volume five, and Sunspot Jungle volume two. Her work has

been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Czech. They're more at RSA Garcia.com. Our narrator for

this story, Maxine Moore, is a creative who has worked in a variety of fields, including video,

radio, photography, and now voice acting. She can often be found watching movies, drinking tea,

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