Pseudipod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear.

It's beautiful in its own alien way, but what's to come will

unsettle you. Sudapad episode 643 for April 12th 2019, the City of the Gone Away by Ambrose Pierce. I'm Alex Co co-editor at Sudapod. Your host is sweet.

Ambrose Biers was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulous, and sadarist.

He wrote the short story in occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and compiled a satirical lexicon

the Devil's Dictionary.

His vehemence is a critic, his motto nothing matters, and the sardonic

view of human nature that informed his work altogether earned him the nickname

Bitter Beers. This story was first published as The Gone Away, a tale of medical science and commercial thrift in the San Francisco Examiner, December 2, 1888.

This is probably my favorite beer story with Oil of Dogg is a close second.

That one ran as episode 200, so go to the back catalog and check it out.

As a warning, this is one of his black satire pieces so it is free of the supernatural.

Instead, we only have humanity to contend with.

Our narrator this week is B.J. Harrison, who's contend with.

Our narrator this week is B.J. Harrison, who is the force behind the Classic Tales podcast, which

for over a decade has shared short fiction, serialized fiction, and novels. I can't encourage you enough to add the classic tales to your favorite podcatcher.

B.J has recently done some Wodehouse that just entered the public domain and I'm looking forward to when this comes up in my

listening cue. Now we have a story for you, framed in immortels and suspended by a bit of

crepe to a willow in the front of our office, and we promise you, it's true. So, The City of the Gone Away by Ambrose Beers, narrated by B.J Harrison.

I was born of poor because honest parents and until I was 23 years old never knew the possibilities

of happiness latent in another person's coin.

At that time Providence threw me into a deep sleep, and revealed to me in a dream the folly

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