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This episode of Escape Pod has a content warning for claustrophobia and drowning. Escape POD, Episode, Episode 921, Death by Water, by Grace Chan. I'm going to And the Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly Science Fiction

Podcast. I'm Mer Lafferney, your host for this episode. Our story this week is Death by Water by Grace Chan.

This reprint was originally published and from the Wasteland in September 2022.

Grace Chan is a speculative fiction writer and doctor.

She can't seem to stop scribbling about minds, cyborgs, technology, duplication, and

duplicity and alien landscapes. Her short fiction can be found in Clark's World, Light Speed,

Fireside, Hexagon, and many other places. Her debut novel, every version of

you is about staying in love after mind uploading into virtual reality.

You can find her online at Grace Chan Rights.com and on Twitter as Grace Chan Rights.

It's narrated for us by Rebecca Wei Shea.

Rebecca is an actor and writer with a BA in theatre and Italian studies from Wesleyan

University. She doesn't particularly enjoy talking about herself in the third person, but does it nonetheless to seem as professional as possible.

As part of her attempt to be professional, Rebecca writes for nerdy POC and screen rant, and is written for other publications such as

Wonderful and O.C 87 Recovery Diaries. Rebecca is also a connoisseur of bad puns and

generally awkward queer woman of color.

Now get some hot chocolate and a blanket ready to warm you because it's story time. Story Time. Chan, narrated by Rebecca Wei's Shee.

I spread you out on the medical bed,

frayed suit, splintered body, frosted eyes.

I can't see anything.

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