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Title: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: eytanz on November 14, 2017, 03:30:28 PM
Escape Pod 601: Wet Fur (http://escapepod.org/2017/10/19/escape-pod-598-fringes-fractal/)

AUTHOR: Jeremiah Tolbert (http://jeremiahtolbert.com/)
NARRATOR: Adam Pracht (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&text=Adam+Pracht&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Adam+Pracht&sort=relevancerank)
HOST: Tina Connolly (http://tinaconnolly.com/)

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You can tell the dog owners when they board the plane; they see the black cloud hovering in the first row and their eyes widen in shock, then narrow in fear, followed by a glimmer of a smile, a hope as they glance at so many occupied seats. A hopeful smile that seems to say: “not for me. Not for mine.”

Unease settles over the plane, like a heavy, acrid scent. A few passengers throw suspicious glances at you, and one elderly woman even stops for a moment beside you, opens her mouth as if to speak. You hold your breath. She closes her mouth and shuffles toward the rear of the plane

You breathe again. You try to ignore the man seated next to you. You focus on the safety talk.

When the flight attendant buckles her fake belt, she glances at the cloud off her shoulder, then smiles apologetically at her audience. Like it’s her fault, or perhaps the airline’s? There’s nothing she can do, or anyone else.

You sniff. You smell damp fur. You frown, wondering, perhaps, how that could be? You don’t know what strange links lie between memory and nose, but we do.


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Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: adrianh on November 14, 2017, 03:49:17 PM
No, your you're crying.

<sniff>

Good story. 12/10 Brent.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: acpracht on November 15, 2017, 02:11:52 AM
No, your crying.

<sniff>

Good story. 12/10 Brent.

Take that feeling, weep, then realize it's your own speaking voice making you sob, laugh at yourself, then cry again. :/

That was my Thursday. :P

Jeremiah wrote a fantastic story here.

-Adam
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: irishlazz on November 16, 2017, 06:59:50 PM
This didn't have any affect on my tear ducts, but I did like the story quite a lot.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: Jethro's belt on November 20, 2017, 05:21:44 PM
Multiple stories and mysteries here, glad I stayed past the early confusion and to be fair there was a steady stream of reveals. Ghost pack in the sky it was good.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: DerangedMind on November 22, 2017, 01:34:45 PM
I'm not quite sure what to say about this story...  I was engaged, it made me think, narration was great.  I started off confused as to what was going on, but the story was great with the reveals.

Did I love it?  No.  But I liked it a lot. 
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: skeletondragon on November 25, 2017, 11:52:15 PM
As someone with an intense dread of airplane conversations becoming more personal than I'm comfortable with, I thought this story did a good job of anchoring the fantastic with the commonplace and relatable.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: Katzentatzen on December 01, 2017, 10:58:59 PM
I listened to this one twice to make sure I got it. I always love Adam’s narrations, this one was really lovely, detached but wistful. We don’t deserve dogs.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: Katzentatzen on December 02, 2017, 12:07:42 AM
And I’m going to add a tiny bit of fan fiction here: one day when Christina is on her deathbed, Daisy will visit her owner to welcome her into the pack.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: acpracht on December 02, 2017, 05:13:08 AM
I listened to this one twice to make sure I got it. I always love Adam’s narrations, this one was really lovely, detached but wistful. We don’t deserve dogs.

Aw, thanks. This made my day. :)

-Adam
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: cwthree on December 08, 2017, 01:01:52 AM
This made me want to go home and pet my dog.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: CryptoMe on December 26, 2017, 04:18:16 PM
I did enjoy the story, but found the beginning too confusing. Somewhere in the middle, I just went back to the beginning and started again, because I was so confused. I would have appreciated a bit more clarity in the beginning.
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: VTDorchester on April 28, 2019, 05:57:15 PM
I enjoyed this story, and I worried about my tear ducts, although fortunately, they remained in control. I found a quiet bit of description within sufficiently inspiring that I wrote it down with hopes to use the idea it expressed in one of my current works-in-progress. (Although obviously, I will not plagiarize, because that would make me a jerk.) 
Title: Re: EP601: Wet Fur
Post by: cwthree on April 28, 2019, 06:40:14 PM
Funny to see this thread become active again. This story just popped up on the Drabblecast.