Hi, are you an Amazon Prime member? Do you have five minutes? Then you could support us with

five bucks a month for free. Head to escape artist.net slash twitch for a walkthrough. Escape POD, episode 958. Some of them closer, by Marissa Lingon. Flashbuck Friday. Oh, Hello and welcome to a skate pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is a flashback from the archives, some of them closer, by Marissa Lingan. It originally appeared in analog in 2011 and was

reprinted in a skate pod in 2012.

Marissa Lingan is a freelance writer who lives in Minnesota with two large men and one small dog.

This is true, but not perhaps optimally illuminating.

Our narrator this week is the Word Horror who hosted

air on my shorts with pressed in buttons for a 10-year stint. The duo narrated

unfetted works of listener submitted short fiction,

often absentmindedly, always drunkenly, and completely unencumbered by any relevant

credentials from 2005 through 2015. of the Now get ready for the end of an Odyssey whose homecoming is strained at best, because it's story time. Some of them closer by Marissa Lingan.

Coming back to Earth was not the immediate shock they expected it to be for me.

It was something certainly, but I'd been catching up on the highlights of the news as it cascaded back to the ship on her relativistic return trip.

And I never knew the island where we landed when we left home 20 of our years ago and a hundred

of theirs.

So I expected it to look foreign to me, and it did.

The sun was a little yellower than on new landing, the plants friendlier.

But I'd never thought of myself as an e, even with the new system hardly any of us do.

I thought of myself is from Montreal, Quebec was, Canadian even.

But Arthur? No, I am far more provincial than the colonists whose home I built

will ever be. I flew into the new place instead of Dorval.

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