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The Robot Whisperer. Hello and welcome to EscapePod. I'm Merle Lafferty, your co-editor and host.

For our latest story, The Robot Whisperer, by Holly Schofield.

Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second,

oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life.

Her speculative short fiction has been published in analog,

Lightspeed, Tesseracts, and elsewhere,

including two stories at EscapePod and five at Cast of Wonders.

Her works are used in university curricula

and have been translated into multiple languages.

She is a former editor of Solar Punk Magazine.

Find her at holly scoffield.wordpress.com. It's narrated for us by Kay Mills. Kay is a creator and performer

based in Ontario, Canada. They have worked in live theater, visual arts, graphic design,

clown, voice, and writing.

When not working, they can generally be found reading, collecting books to read later,

or drastically changing their hair.

This story first appeared in Android Press's Fighting for the Future,

Cyberpunk and Solar Punk Tales, Anthology, in July 2023. So clean the dust off your slick

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