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Hello, and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdes,

your host for this episode. This month we're doing something extra fun. All our stories

are about time travel. We'll have timeline hopping, time loops, and the perils of trying

to tinker with the past and failing. We hope you'll all make time to tune in, but if not,

thankfully you won't have to turn back time to find these episodes in our archives.

And speaking of the past, our story this week is a flashback, murder or a duck by Beth

Goether. This was an Escape Pod original from October 2016.

Beth Goether works as an archivist, processing the papers of economists, scientists, and

other interesting folks. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Escape Pod, Analog,

Clarks World, Nature, and Rich Hortons, the year's best science fiction and fantasy. You

can find her online at Bethgoether.com.

Our narrator, Amy H. Sturgis, holds a PhD in intellectual history and specializes in

science fiction, fantasy, and indigenous American studies. She is staffed on the Starship

Sofa podcast, editor-in-chief of Hocus Pocus Comics, and faculty at Linoir Rhyme University

and Sigma University. She lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Virginia in

the United States. Her website is AmyHSturgis.com.

Now, get ready for a very tense tea time with a frenemy because it's story time.

Murder or a duck? George called out Mrs. Whitman, you have a visitor. Mrs. Whitman strode

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