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EscapePort Episode 891. One Delast. By LP King Dread.

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

Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you Wonder Last. By LP King Dread. This story first appeared

in anathema, spec from the margins. LP King Dread is a Chicagoan and gelino writer-slash editor

of speculative fiction, teaching artist, musician, and podcaster. An alum of Hurston Wright,

Vona and Claren, LP's writing appears in fire, speculative city,

Levar Burton Reaths, Apex, EscapePod, podcastle, chore.com,

Prismarca, Locus, Queerblades, and anathema.

King Dread is a cocoa founder of VoodooNots, a grassroots collective addressing the isolation

and under-representation of black creatives in the speculative fiction community.

LP co-edited and contributed to VoodooNots presents Reliving Mythology.

King Dread can be found at LP King Dread or at link tree-slash LP King Dread.

This story is narrated by the author. Your audio producer this week is Summer Brooks.

This thoroughly delightful story has content notifications for not safe for work language and sex,

depending on where you work. So get ready to taste the arpeggios because

it's story time.

Not homeless, just rough around the edges. When he talked, it was like he picked up a conversation

I was having with myself, and staring into those ebony eyes of his didn't hurt his chances either.

Coffee lasted hours, so did bedtime. When I asked him why he'd walked up to me,

he said he liked the magenta scent of my locks. With his accent, I thought he administered

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