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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 the second part, Filia,

arrows, store gay, agape, progma, by RSA Garcia. It was first published by Clarks World

in December 2020. Due to length, it will be presented in fourth parts. RSA Garcia writes

speculative fiction and lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many

cat-and-dogs. Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Telliones, received a start

review from publishers weekly, the silver medal for best sci-fi fantasy horror e-book from

the Independent Publishers Awards, and became an Amazon bestseller. She has published

short fiction in magazines such as Clarks World Magazine, Escape Pod, and Internet Sonale

Magazine. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including the critically claimed

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 learn 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, traveling, or enjoying a good book. She lives with her husband and son in the Washington

DC area. Without further ado, part two of this dispensal story of the many faces of love,

story time.

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