Escape Pod 842: Love and Supervillains

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Love and Supervillains By Caroline Diorio The gals here at the Raleigh Women’s Asylum for the Nefariously Gifted have a little saying they like to share with the newbies: fuck a superhero once, shame on him; fuck a superhero twice, shame on you. Well, technically my first super wasn’t a hero. Or even all that super. Davey could control metal with his mind, which came in handy whenever the little gears in the ice cream machine at our after-school job got jammed, but he couldn’t budge anything heavier or thicker than a can of tomatoes. He auditioned for the Southeastern Sentinels at their headquarters in Charlotte two months before our high school graduation, and while they didn’t laugh directly in his face, they thanked him for his “radical vulnerability” and told him they would “give him a call if they ever needed his skillset,” which was almost worse. He was a sweet boyfriend, though, always fixing my necklaces when they broke. We lost touch after we broke up for college, but in hindsight, I really should’ve looked him up back when I still had Internet access. Or any access to the outside world.

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0:00.0	Content warning, this story contains strong language, blood and gore, and graphic sexual situations.
0:18.0	EscapePod Episode 842
0:21.0	Love and Supervillains
0:23.0	by Caroline Diorio
0:30.0	Hello, and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
0:40.0	Our story this week is Love and Supervillains.
0:46.0	This week is Love and Supervillains.
0:50.0	Hello, and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:54.0	I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
0:58.0	Our story this week is Love and Supervillains by Caroline Diorio.
1:03.0	This is an EscapePod original.
1:06.0	Caroline Diorio's short fiction has been published in Joyland Magazine, Apparition Lit, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, and more.
1:15.0	She lives in and is endlessly inspired by North Carolina.
1:20.0	Our narrator this week is Sandy Parsons.
1:23.0	Sandy's fiction can be read in analog science fiction and fact, EscapePod, and reckoning among others.
1:30.0	In addition to writing fiction, Sandy also narrates audio fiction.
1:34.0	When not writing, Sandy works as an anesthetist in Georgia.
1:38.0	More information and links to stories can be found at sandyparsons.com.
1:43.0	Now, get ready for a tale of many kinds of hunger, because it's story time.
1:53.0	Love and Supervillains by Caroline Diorio, narrated by Sandy Parsons.
1:59.0	The gals here at the Raleigh women's asylum for the nefariously gifted have a little saying they like to share with the newbies.
2:06.0	Fuck a superhero once, shame on him.
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