Escape Pod 1060: Soft Currency (Flashback Friday)

Author : Jeff Soesbe Narrator : Mur Lafferty Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1063: Modern Birdwatching is an Escape Pod original. This episode is sponsored by Sleepphones! Use code ESCAPEPOD and get 10% off your purchase. Modern Birdwatching by Jeff Soesbe I used to like birdwatching, especially hummingbirds, until […] Source

Author : Hans Ege Wenger Narrator : Eric Valdes Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 1062: Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed is an Escape Pod original. Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed By Hans Ege Wenger I am a hundred and seventy-nine years old when I commit […] Source

Author : Trae Hawkins Narrator : Pippa Alice Stephens Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1061: Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds is an Escape Pod original. This episode is sponsored by Sleepphones! Use code ESCAPEPOD and get 10% off your purchase. Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds by Trae […] Source

Author : Seth Gordon Narrator : Melissa Bugaj Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Mur Lafferty Audio Producers : Adam Pracht and Mat Weller Soft Currency first appeared as an Escape Pod original in Episode 473 on December 24, 2014. Soft Currency By Seth Gordon When Cassie Levine was nine years old, her family lived in the center of […] Source

Author : Kathleen Schaefer Narrator : Heather Thomas Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1059: A Little Freedom Makes Us Rebels is an Escape Pod original. Mild mentions of parental abuse This episode is sponsored by Sleepphones! Use code ESCAPEPOD and get 10% off your purchase. A Little Freedom Makes […] Source

Author : C. W. Maurer Narrator : Nicola Chapman Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Riftwork originally appeared in Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent and Imagine anthology in July 2025. Includes tight, underground spaces. Riftwork (Part 2 of 2) By C. W. Maurer (…Continued from Part 1) I glance back […] Source

Author : C. W. Maurer Narrator : Nicola Chapman Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Riftwork originally appeared in Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent and Imagine anthology in July 2025. Includes tight, underground spaces. Riftwork (Part 1 of 2) By C. W. Maurer It’s no secret that the surfies think […] Source

Author : Carrie Vaughn Narrator : Cherrae L. Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Woolly” was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction (May/June 2025) This episode is sponsored by Sleepphones! Use code ESCAPEPOD and get 10% off your purchase. Woolly by Carrie Vaughn At five a.m., Joy got a call from […] Source

Author : Remy Nakamura Narrator : Roberto Suarez Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Impossibility Crow was originally published as Escape Pod episode 557 on January 5, 2017. Includes violence and swears. Impossibility Crow By Remy Nakamura The Kingdom Coffee Missionary Handbook tells Paulo that he should always put […] Source

Author : Meridel Newton Narrator : Alexandra Rose Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 1054: Takahata-fudo is an Escape Pod original. This episode is sponsored by Sleepphones! Use code ESCAPEPOD and get 10% off your purchase. Takahata-fudo by Meridel Newton If you walk far enough along the old Keio line […] Source