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Our story for the first of December, issue 219, is titled Stranger Seas Than These, as by L. Chan.

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Elle Chen hails from Singapore.

He spends most of his time wrangling a team of two dogs, Mr. Luca and Mr. Telly.

His work has appeared in places like Clarksworld,

trans lunar traveler's lounge, Podcastle and the Dark. He was a finalist for the 2020 UG.

Foster Memorial Award. And if you like what you hear, he's got three other stories with us at

Clarksworld. One's titled Reunion, The Death Hiku of the Azure 5, and a house is not a home.

So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

It is two days since our original projected mission end date. We are running out of oxygen,

and we are trapped in the throat

of a god. Technology and a prudent safety review panel have kept casualties on deep dive slow,

but abyssal layer dives have always been risky. Still, there hasn't been a fatality in years

and none, to the best of my knowledge, within the trachea of one of Pelagia's godwales.

Perhaps they will name a safety rule after us.

Canned air in a submersible has a specific flavor to it. The corpos that manufacture the

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