The artifact is 150,000 years old. It's made of an artificial metal we have been unable to

identify. There is a message scratched on the front. What does it say? This is a horror podcast.

Consider yourselves warned.

Sudapod, episode 850, for January 27, 2023, a short trip home by Effa Scott Fitzgerald.

I'm Sean Garrett. First-while co-editor of Sudapod, you're host this week for the final

installment in our public domain showcase, presenting stories that have just entered the public

domain this year. Perhaps you've heard of our author this week, Effa Scott Fitzgerald, 1896

through 1940, was an American novelist essayist and short story writer. Born into a middle-class

family in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York State. He attended

Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. He is best known

for his novels, depicting the flamboyance and excess of the jazz age, a term he popularized.

During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories.

Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received

critical acclaim only after his death, and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American

writers of the 20th century. His novels include The Great Gatsby from 1925, and Tender's The Night

from 1934. After a long struggle with alcoholism he obtained sobriety only to die of a heart attack

in 1940 at age 44. This story, a short trip home, was originally published in the Saturday

Evening Post of December 17, 1927. Your narrator this week is me, Sean M. Garrett.

The co-editors Sudapa, the premiere of our fiction podcast, and either the dumbest smart man

or the smartest dumb man you've ever met in your life. Thanks to the youths meant in the company

of Richard Mappison, Vincent Price, Carl Colshack, and Jupiter Jones, I've pursued a lifelong

interest in the thrilling, horrific, and the mysterious. Be it in print, film, art, or audio.

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