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Escape pod. Episode 853. 2022 Flash Fiction Contest winners.

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

Daldes, your host for this episode. This week we're happy to share the winners of our Flash Fiction

Contest thanks to everyone who participated in Bode. Our first winner is Half Lives by Andrew

Hiller. Andrew Hiller's stories are always born from a ha or a ha. His work has been heard on NPR,

a few New York stages and now Escape pod. His novels may have been heard too but mostly when the

reader reads aloud. You can find selected radio pieces, story links and artwork at AndrewHiller.net.

Our narrator, JarristerNet, is a middleman, middle aged, middle child living in the middle of

the United States. After living most of his life in such exotic locations as Arkansas, Texas,

Mississippi and Tennessee, he relocated to Chicago Lab where he spends time working in corporate

America. Jarrister's a lifelong skeptic who loves reading stories of fantasy and the paranormal

will silently and aloud. And now it's story time.

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