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Title: EP750: The Anatomy of Miracles
Post by: divs on September 19, 2020, 08:27:52 PM
Escape Pod 750: The Anatomy of Miracles (https://escapepod.org/2020/09/17/escape-pod-750-the-anatomy-of-miracles/)

Author: Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (https://escapepod.org/people/filip-hajdar-drnovsek-zorko/)
Narrators: S.B. Divya (https://escapepod.org/people/s-b-divya/) and David D. Levine (https://escapepod.org/people/david-d-levine/)
Host: Tina Connolly (https://escapepod.org/people/tina-connolly/)
Audio Producer: Summer Brooks (https://escapepod.org/people/summer-brooks/)

Escape Pod 750: The Anatomy of Miracles is an Escape Pod original.

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For half a song every evening, the sunsets reminded the miracle worker of home. The hills were reddish-brown in daylight, but when the two suns, one after the other, slipped below the horizon, they came alive with purple highlights. He could almost pretend the hills were blue, instead, that the sea in the distance was true water and not liquid methane. On those occasions, he leaned back on his rear limb-pairs and, from a great distance, heard the timekeepers singing time.

He didn’t know what the window was made of. He couldn’t have said there was a window there at all, but for the fact he didn’t suffocate. He understood why his masters always sent him to inhospitable planets. His work was imprecise. It was safer that way. But this was the first planet that had been beautiful, the first that had brought the old songs ringing back. It was different. He felt it in his bones.

By first dawn, the hills were red again, and he was merely an old man who had not seen home in a long, long time.




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Title: Re: EP750: The Anatomy of Miracles
Post by: CryptoMe on May 18, 2021, 12:58:15 AM
This felt to me like two completely unrelated stories, except for the fact that they both related to "missing home". But this missing was so different that the link was, for me, tenuous at best. I would have enjoyed the stories better in isolation, if they hadn't been marred by some vague hints that the alien miracle worker was responsible for the Earth girl's spontaneous translocation.