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

your host for this episode. Our story this week is Buttons in Weird Places by Simon Kuen. This

story originally appeared in Abyss in Apex in September 2021, and will be presented in two parts.

Simon Kuen is an award-winning writer of fantasy and sci-fi, with over 400 publications to his name.

He's the author of the Kloven Land Fantasy Trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Gene Hunter,

steam punk gorman gas saga engine, the triple star's sci-fi trilogy, and the office of the

witch finder general books, published by L. Swen Press. He's the author of several short story

collections, with his shorter fiction appearing in analog, nature, and many other magazines. His

novel Dead Star was an SPSFC award semi-finalist, and Buttons in Weird Places was shortlisted for a

utopia award. His novella at the clockwork king won the tailors by moonlight editor's prize.

Our narrator Rebecca Weiss-Shit is a Taiwanese American actor, writer, translator, and sensitivity

reader based in New York City. Having grown up across several continents, her work focuses on the

interplay between Asia and the Asian diaspora, gender, queerness, and mental illness, and has been

featured in outlets like We Need Diverse Books, where your voice magazine, book riot, and the

dot in line. She has a BA in theater and Italian studies from Wesleyan University,

and you can find her attempts to use her liberal arts degree at rwshea.com.

Now get ready for a mystery of impossible proportions to hit social media around the world,

because it's story time.

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