Escape Pod 996: Sanctuary, Part 1 of 2

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Author : Alexis Ames Narrator : Eric Valdes Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Sanctuary” first appeared in Kyanite Press, Winter 2020 Sanctuary (Part 1) by Alexis Ames 1. The king of the galaxy died the day before the biggest holiday of the year, and six hours before I was supposed to […]

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0:34.0	Visit escapartists.net slash Twitch for a full walkthrough. EscapePod. Episode 996. Sanctuary by Alexis Ames, part one of two. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez,
1:31.0	your host for this episode. Our story this week is Sanctuary by Alexis Ames. The story was originally
1:39.2	published in Cyanite Press in the winter 2020 issue. It would be presented in two parts.
1:47.0	Alexis Ames is a speculative fiction writer with works in publications such as pseudapod,
1:52.0	Moon Station Quarterly, and Radon Journal.
1:56.0	Our narrator, Eric Valdez, is a sound mixer, performer, and creative human like you. He lives with his family
2:03.0	in a cozy house made of puns, coffee, and chaos. Catch him making up silly songs on Saturdays on
2:09.6	Twitch.tv slash the Kids Are Sleevee. Or stare and wonder while he anxiously avoids posting on blue sky
2:15.8	at Intensely Eric.
2:36.1	Now, get ready for one last job to go wrong, because it's story time. Sanctuary by Alexis Ames Read by Eric Valdez
2:40.1	1
2:44.2	The King of the Galaxy died the day before the biggest holiday of the year, and six hours
2:53.8	before I was supposed to be on a shuttle home.
2:57.5	It was lousy, rotten timing, and I reflected that I should have done as Cecil said
3:03.1	and called in sick, telling my superiors that I picked up a virus from the case we worked last week
3:08.6	and taken the dawn shuttle instead of the evening one.
3:13.5	But I knew it would have caused me more problems than it was worth, namely because the director
3:19.0	would want to put me through a battery of tests when I returned to make sure I couldn't pass
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