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Escapeart. Episode 872. The Hazmat Sisters. By Alex Beckett. Part 1 of 2.

Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is The Hazmat Sisters by Alex Beckett. It was first published by Asmolves in July 2021. It will be presented in two parts.

Toronto author and editor Alex Beckett furthered their youth working as an actor and theater technician in Southern Alberta

before deciding to make a shift into writing science fiction. Their first novella, Freezing Rain, a chance of falling, appeared in the July

August issue, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction in 2018 and takes place in the same universe as The Hazmat Sisters, as well as their novel's

deal breaker and game changer. Lex identifies as feminist, lesbian, gender career, and married. An insatiable consumer of

cage dramas, mysteries, and true crime podcasts, they can be found infusing about these and other topics on Twitter at LX Beckett.

Our narrator Amy Kelly is an award winning Southern writer with an eclectic range of screenwriting and ghost writing credits.

She graduated from Georgia College and state university with a BS in art and marketing and went on to earn her MFA and create a writing from full

sale university. Her self published novels include The Southern Dark Fantasy Series, American Spectre, and The Goal

a horror novel ever lasting to everlasting. They can be found in paperback on Amazon and downloaded on Kindle.

She currently resides in Sumter County, South Carolina.

Now get ready to embark on a long and difficult quest through dangerous territory because it's story time.

The Hazmat Sisters by Lex Beckett, narrated by Amy Kelly.

The runaway soldier comes upon their party days after they cross out of Oklahoma into Missouri late in the afternoon when their quarter master is on shift as they camp in a covert near a river somewhere near Grand Falls.

Wilmy drew last watch, shift at the end of the day through hot and human afternoon and its build to an equally dense evening.

She's sliding in and out of a dose, heat topper amplified by her hay fever meds.

Pony pokes her with one of its sharps, a silent alarm that shoots Wilmy to her feet, a journalized, rearing, and ready to wake the others, unless it's a feral chicken, or a skunk.

Pony supposed to know a coyote when it sees it, but it still flags every single one.

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