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Escapeart. Episode 865. Spyder. Bipatrice Sarath. Part 2 of 2.

Hello and welcome to EscapePod. This is Merlaferty, your co-editor and host for the week.

On this week we bring you Part 2 of 2 of Spyder by Patrice Sarath. Patrice is an author and editor living in Austin, Texas. Her novels include The Fantasy Books, The Sisters, MetaRose and Fog Season.

And the romance, The Unexpected Miss Bennett. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies to find out more about her, novels and short fiction.

Visit her website at patricecerath.com. She blogs about fantasy science fiction movies and Jane Austen.

It's narrated for us by Tatiana Gray. She is a New York City-based actress of stage screen and of course the audio booth.

She adores traveling and counts her lucky stars that acting and dancing have taken her all over the United States, the Montreal, Vancouver, Ireland and Holland.

But she loves coming home to New York where it all started. Tatiana is a proud member of actors equity association.

This story first appeared in the way of the laser anthology published by vernacular books June 2020.

Previously in Spyder Part 1, by Frost Mining Station floats in the asteroid belt beyond Mars and it's occupied by minors, crooks and personnel.

All of whom are escaping from something. But as the violent goucher twins find people to help them pull off a heist and the cops shame and ray attempt to stop them, the questions of why they can't just arrest the goucher twins.

And what is driving the station AI? And while most everyone on the station is getting away from something, what is aboard the station that people want to escape? Those all come up.

Now let's get settled because the gravity is ramping up. It's story time.

Spyder by Patrice Sarath narrated by Tatiana Gray, part two's win.

Attention, attention, stay in your quarters. Attention, attention, stay in your quarters.

The bloody pink light of the station alarm washed over Shane and Ray as they pushed at top speed toward the residential arm.

Despite the warning, most of the station population was watching from their doorways in various stages of ragged middle of the night undress, hair floating around fluid bloated faces.

They encountered the first drifting blood drops as they rounded the corner of the miners section. A drift in the corridor was the body of one of the brothers, barely conscious.

Shane reached him first, wrestling the body around so she could run a diagnostic. His face was battered as if the other brother had tied him to a rail and then kept ramming an oxygen canister at his nose. She fished for his ID. Rose.

Where's Carter Rose? She said his eyes fluttered, but he made no response.

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