Escape Pod 939: Variant Cover: Pantone Sunset

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Alternate Cover: Pantone Sunset By Marie Vibbert Stacey reads a comic book. It’s about a robot lady, but not like her. This robot lady has exposed gears and metal rods in her arms and wears a metallic bikini as she solves crimes. The colors are otherworldly. Sometimes the red ink bleeds sideways or the blue shifts toward the bottom of the page. Stacey loves the feeling that every image is made of transparent layers. She imagines soft films of yellow, red, and blue gently wafting down onto the black and white. Stacey isn’t supposed to be reading the comic book. Her existence is devoted to the proper display and peddling of women’s casual separates for the upscale consumer. When she isn’t in the window posing, she is assisting customers or straightening stock–which means undoing the chaos the customers do to the shop. They do a lot. The comic book itself had been left by a customer, on a pedestal displaying the new winter sweaters, with a half-drunk coffee and some cheese doodles.

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0:00.0	EA is now on Twitch.
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0:06.8	and Sunday mornings for a few hours of chill casual gaming,
0:10.6	plus interviews, special guests, pick up streams, and more.
0:14.7	Visit twitch. TV slash EA Podcasts, and follow us to be notified when we go live,
0:21.6	plus access VODs of past broadcasts. Escape Odd, episode 939.
0:37.0	Episode 939.
0:39.8	Variant cover, Pantone Sunset.
0:42.6	By Marie Vibut. Oh, A skate pod 939, May 2nd, 2024. This week's story, Variant Cover, Pantone Sunset by Marie Vivit.
1:19.8	Nureated by Rebecca Weiycheer.
1:22.8	Audio production by Adam Pract, hosted by me, Alisto Stewart.
1:28.2	Hello everyone, welcome to a skate pod, the weekly science fiction podcast.
1:32.4	This is episode 939 and I'm
1:35.0	Alistair your host and it is so good to be back this week's story comes to us from
1:39.4	Marie Vivit a Hugo and Nebula finalist Marie has over 80 stories in top magazines like Analog
1:45.6	Clocksworld and Lightspeed. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
1:51.0	Rebecca Wei Shee, She is an NYC-based Taiwanese American actor and writer who feels awkward writing
1:59.3	about herself in the third person.
2:01.6	Her acting work encompasses voiceover, stage and screen. Her writing has been featured
2:06.4	in outlets like We Need Diverse Books and Wear Your Voice magazine. She has a BA in theatre and Italian studies from Wesleyan University and is currently
2:16.0	co-writing a memoir about Tibet. We will put her socials as always on the show notes for you. So with this incredibly talented crew all primed and
2:25.0	ready, it's story time. Sunset by Marie Vibbert, narrated by Rebecca Wei Shee.
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