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Hello, and welcome to Escape Part, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host

this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you Dandelion by John Shade. This story

first appeared in Shimmer Magazine. John Shade writes weird fiction under the constant Texas

Sun. His stories have appeared in triangulation, Shimmer, Giganada Sores, and Podcastle. He

can be bribed only with a good hamburger and can be found online on Twitter at Distopian

Dream or on his website, JohnShade.net. Your narrator this week is Cat Corbetti. Cat Corbetti

is a queer, Greek-slash-Serbian SFF writer, film critic, and podcaster based in London,

UK. Her novel and progress about a secret society of Swedish superheroes was shortlisted

for the London Writer's Awards in 2019, and she was a juror for the best nonfiction

category in the 2020 British Fantasy Awards. She organizes Spectrum, the largest critique

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