Escape Pod 567: Baro Porrajmos, or Love in the Vardo (Artemis Rising)
Show Notes
Artemis Rising returns to Escape Pod for its third year! This month-long event highlights science fiction by women and non-binary authors. We have five original stories this year that range in topics from biotech to far-flung A.I, virtual reality, and nanotech.
Baro Porrajmos, or Love in the Vardo
By Eileen Gunnell Lee
The day we left the Static was the best day of our lives. The Static had been squalid—a cold concrete building with perpetually wet floors sloping toward the drains. There had been too many of us in there, even without the men.
We celebrated the day we left the Static. We ate the rest of our rations, so certain were we that after that day we would forage in the countryside, or trade for what we couldn’t glean ourselves.
Freedom! Opre Roma, and all that. (Continue Reading…)