8. Escape pod. Episode 910. Tuesday, June 13. At the South Valley Time Loop Support Group. By Heather Cammings.

Hello and welcome to Escape Pod. I'm your host and co-editor, Murr Laferty. And welcome to our time travel month.

This week's story is Tuesday, June 13 at the South Valley Time Loop Support Group by Heather Cammings.

Heather is the author of the novel, The Moth Girl, which was selected for Locust Magazine's 2022 Recommended Reading List and named a must read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Her short fiction has appeared in Guinerica, Moon Recession Quarterly, and elsewhere. And she is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, two cats, and woodland creatures who stroll through their yard.

This is narrated for us by another Heather, Heather Thomas. Heather slings jewelry by day and is an aspiring voice actor by night.

In her high school year, she was classically trained in opera, but now mostly just sings karaoke. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and her two evil cats.

Her other narrations can be found at Creepy Podcast, The Bigger Library, The Lift, Tales to Terrify, and Starship Sofa.

She is also published at Sudopod.

Fun fact, the last episode she narrated for Escape Pod was another time travel story, Escape Pod 851 Time Bomb Time.

This is an Escape Pod original. This is not the first time or the last time you will hear this. It's story time.

Tuesday, June 13th, at the South Valley Time Loop Support Group by Heather Cayman's, narrated by Heather Thomas.

Each time, Jessica begins the meeting the same way.

Well, here we are again. The same introduction, the same mild chuckles from the group in response.

She is the leader of this support group for Time Loop Survivors, a rare experience, yet there are a handful of us in the area.

For this we count our blessings as many of us once counted the days. It isn't like there are guidebooks for this sort of thing.

All we have is each other.

We sit in a circle of chairs in a musty church basement. Tony shares first. She is 58, though age is relative for us.

She estimates she was stuck in her loop for several years in total.

It was December, and from the way she describes it, she might as well have been Ebenezer Scrooge.

I was working as a manager at this tech company. 80-hour weeks and all that. After a while you think it's just normal.

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