"Getaway" by Nicole Kornher-Stace

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A getaway driver and her crew are hired to steal a mysterious artifact, and inadvertently get locked into a time loop. Find more from Nicole Kornher-Stace at www.nicolekornherstace.com or on Twitter @wirewalking. Content advisory: Gun violence, gore, death

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lavar Burton and this is Lavar Burton Reads.
0:11.3	In every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.
0:17.4	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:25.3	Hey y'all!
0:28.8	I'm gonna throw something a little different at you today.
0:33.2	The story was written by Nicole Cornerstase and it first appeared in issue 33 of Uncanny
0:39.9	magazine.
0:40.9	Uncanny is an amazing speculated to fiction magazine and podcast that has published lots
0:45.9	of great fiction, nonfiction poetry, the works.
0:48.8	They are amazing over at Uncanny.
0:52.5	Nicole is the author of the Norton Award finalist, Archivist Wasp and its sequel Latchkey.
0:58.8	Both of those are YA titles and she's got both adult and middle grade science fiction
1:03.5	debut novels coming out this summer.
1:06.7	I love the way she writes and this story getaway is about a girl gang on a heist to steal
1:15.3	a mysterious object but the heist goes very, very wrong.
1:20.2	This is a story of persistence about searching and striving for connection when it seems
1:27.1	completely impossible.
1:29.6	You'll understand what I mean later on.
1:33.3	Now remember how I said that this is a heist gone wrong?
1:36.9	It's going to be bloody and have more swearing than usual.
1:43.3	A lot more swearing than usual.
1:46.4	And I'm just letting you know that now.
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