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

this week, Tina Connoi, and I am here to bring you the Sea Goddess Blume by Uchei Chukuo

Noaka. This story is original to EscapePod. Uchei Chukuo Noaka is an eighth-bow medical

student at University of Abbotten, Nigeria. His works have appeared in podcasts, Omanana,

Fusion Fragment, and Hexagon, among others. When he's not trying to unravel the mysteries

of human, or inhuman, interaction, he can be found binge-watching anime, slush-reading

for Fusion Fragment, or generally trying to keep up with endless schoolwork. Find

him on Twitter at UCHE-Underscore-CJN. Your narrator this week is Samto his way. Samto

lives in Legos with his sister, their dog river, and their cats iffy and salam. He's a

big movie geek, a runner, and a wildlife enthusiast. A fan of white-sold shoes and heavy

rainfall, he also fantasizes about becoming a high-supreme witch. His works have appeared

or are forthcoming in Tor.com, Omanana magazine, and others. Follow him on Twitter at Samto

underscore his way, where he tweets about his bi-monthly quarter-life crisis, among

other things. Your audio producer this week is Adam Pratt. This story deals with post-apocalyptic

themes and war, so get ready to have doubts in your heart, because it's story time.

The sea goddess is blue, by Uche Chuku, Waka. There is doubts in my heart. Here, and

the black water, doubts is dangerous. Doubt is rancid, like slitting the mud-smed belly

of a catfish, only to find its guts blackened by pollution, then watching its spill back

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