Escape Pod 982: Twilight

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Drama, Fiction

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Twilight By Lilly Harper Like the tide going out, the dream slipped between her toes and carried with it the smell of petrichor and the sound of birdsong. Even without knowing she was dreaming, she had known she was waking up; the subliminal chatter of her body, quietly running its routine checksums, the logs spooling their idiot monologue into her working memory. First came a few moments of groggy confusion and then, like an iron hand gripping her cognitive architecture, a kind of clarity that tasted like resentment and reminded her of Monday mornings. Waking up always felt like this. Packed down as she was, crammed into a processor too small to carry her like a spring wound tight, waking up wasn’t a continuous transformation so much as a discrete toggle. Like a light switch.

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0:40.2	Twilight by Lily Harper. Hello and welcome to Escape Pot. I'm Merlafferty, your co-editor and host for our latest story, Twilight, by Lily Harper.
1:16.6	Lily is a science fiction writer, space artist, and debonair transsexual, who, perhaps because of a great sin committed in a past life, was born in the UK.
1:26.6	Her work blends transhumanist themes and
1:29.5	technical obsession with her background in political science and philosophy. This is her first
1:35.0	published piece of work. It's narrated for us by Kat Day. Kat is a PhD chemist who was once
1:41.8	a teacher and is now a professional editor and writer.
1:45.2	She ventured into pseudopod towers in 2019 and became an assistant editor in 2021 and deputy editor in 2025.
1:53.7	The best place to find her is on blue sky at chronicleflask.catday.com.
1:59.8	And you can read a regular flash fiction offerings at the fictional file, that's p-h-I-A-L,
2:05.6	wordpress.com.
2:07.6	This story first ran on Lily's personal writing blog,
2:11.6	Beacons in the Dark.wordpress.com.
2:15.6	To keep calling out into the abyss
2:17.7	because someone might be listening
2:19.4	and because it's story time.
2:22.9	Twilight by Lily Harper.
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