Escape Pod 974: Once Abandoned

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Once Abandoned By A.P. Hawkins Sappel whistled as he walked to the construction site, the sound echoing off nearby buildings in a muffled way. It was early spring, and the city was bursting with the vibrant green of new growth. Wild edibles sprouted from rooftops like tufts of hair. Wildflowers and herbs crowded ledges beneath every window. Vines crawled over walls, buds promising fruit come summer. Out of all the buildings in the city, only the new one was bare. Its fresh grey concrete was harsh, unnatural, sticking out like a sore thumb from the green city and the wild country that surrounded it. But it wouldn’t be bare for much longer. They’d had a good, hard rain last night, which meant the substrate the builders had left behind would be perfectly conditioned for planting. Sappel kept whistling, repeating his song’s refrain.

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0:18.3	and follow us to be notified when we go live, plus access VODs of past broadcasts. EscapeBOD, Episode 974, once abandoned by AP Hawkins. Hello and welcome to a skate pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
1:12.6	I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
1:15.6	Our story this week and first story of the new year is once abandoned by A.P. Hawkins.
1:21.6	This is an Escape Pod original.
1:24.6	A.P. Hawkins is a biologist turned speculative fiction author and editor based in Houston, Texas.
1:32.0	Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including analog science fiction
1:36.6	of that, and the librarian from Air and Nothingness Press.
1:40.9	AP is a co-host of Writers Lunch, a weekly online writing workshop, and a co-founder of Tomworks, an editing collective dedicated to helping genre authors build better books.
1:51.9	When she's not writing or editing, AP enjoys gaming, crafting, and spending time outdoors.
1:57.6	She dabbles in cosplay, quilting, baking, and painting mini figures for tabletop role-playing games.
2:02.6	For updates on her writing and other endeavors, you can follow AP on social media at Ahok Rites, or visit her website, apihockins author.com.
2:12.6	Our narrator this week, Peter Adrian Berravesh, is an Iranian-American musician, writer, editor, audio producer, and narrator.
2:24.3	For these endeavors, he has won the Miller and British Fantasy Awards and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignite, and Aurora Awards.
2:31.8	His interactive novel, Heaven's Revolution, A Lion Among the Cypress,
2:35.6	is available from choice of games. In his essay, Pearls from a Dark Cloud, Monsters in
2:40.8	Persian Myth, appears in the OUP Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth. When he isn't crafting,
2:46.8	crooning, or consuming stories, Peter can usually be found hurtling down a mountain,
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