I commented on this a long while back. Often, I forget which podcast I'm listening to because I hear the introduction, am interrupted, and then simply resume. It might be hours later.
This is one of those stories that could have been on any one of the three Escape Artists podcasts, given a different ending.
The ending it has lands it firmly in the Escape Pod category.
If she'd been 'kidnapped' or simply had her dreams shattered, it would be more suitable for Pseudopod.
I'm not sure what ending would have landed it on Podcastle. Maybe if there'd been a final scene of her remembering how, years before, she'd had a delusion about living all alone on an ice planet before being rescued or something.
Sometimes, I find it amusing to muse on how a story could go any of a number of ways, but we can sort of guess depending on which one of the three podcasts it's on.
"This is Escape Pod and it's not Hugo Month, so this is probably going to have a happy/fun ending."
(For Hugo Month, all bets are most definitely off.)