Escape Pod 874: Common Speech

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Drama, Fiction

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Common Speech By Elise Stephens Dr. Jaiyesimi Obiaka tugged at her sweat-damp collar, wiped her eyes, and tried to focus on the copied pages of the final experiment she and Ganiru had created together. Just looking over his familiar handwriting blurred her vision with tears. Jai’s colleagues had told her to stay home, to take time to grieve, but she’d allowed herself just two days to mourn her husband’s death before donning her lab coat again. She had to be pragmatic.

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0:30.0	Escape pod. Episode 874. Common speech.
0:41.2	By Elise Stevens.
1:08.0	Hello and welcome to Escape pod.
1:10.5	Your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host this week, Tina Connelly, and I am
1:15.4	here to bring you. Common speech. By Elise Stevens. The story is original to Escape
1:22.2	pod. Elise Stevens' story telling is influenced by a lifelong theater and a childhood of globetrotting.
1:29.9	Much of her work focuses on themes of family, memory, and finding hope after devastating
1:35.3	loss. She is a first-place winner of writers of the future, and her fiction has appeared
1:40.8	in analog, galaxy's edge, escape pod, and fire, among others.
1:46.2	Elise lives in a house with huge windows to supply the vast quantities of light she requires
1:51.5	to stay happy. She is currently seeking representation for next science fiction novel. Find her on Twitter
1:57.9	at Elise Stevens or online at Elise Stevens.com.
2:05.5	You are narrated on this week's Iba Armancas. Iba Armancas is an inland empire PBS writer-slash
2:11.6	director and TV host whose COVID-themed educational kid show, Pandemic Playhouse, was nominated
2:18.9	for an Emmy. You can find out more about her, it, and her puppet pals at PandemicPlayhouse.tv.
2:27.8	Our audio producer this week is Adam Perott. This story deals with plagues and description
2:34.7	of injuries. So get ready to research the desiccant microbe because it's story time.
2:49.4	Common speech by Elise Stevens narrated by Iba Armancas.
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