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Pseudopod episode 647 May 10th 2019.

This week's story The Algorithms for Love by Ken Lou.

Hey everybody, welcome to Pseudopod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm

Alistair your host and this week's story comes to us from the magnificent

Ken Lou. If somehow you haven't found Ken's work, please click on the link

on his name in the show notes and I'm

envious of you frankly because you have such incredible stories to discover for the first

time. Our narrator this week is the one and only Danny Daly who is one of escape artists

MVPs consistently and is just an extraordinarily talented multi-class

human and I'm honored to work with her and call her a friend. The

story the Algorithms for Love was originally published by Strange Horizons in

2004 so get ready because Ken and Danny have a story for you and they promise you. It's true. The Algorisms for Love by Ken Lou,

Red by Danny Daly

So long as the nurse is in the room to keep an eye on me

I am allowed to dress myself and get ready for Brad. I slip on an old pair of jeans and a scarlet turtleneck sweater. I've lost so much weight that the jeans hang loosely from the bony points of my hips.

Let's go spend the weekend in Salem,

Brad says to me as he walks me out of the hospital,

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