Escape Artists
Escape Pod => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Russell Nash on October 12, 2008, 06:16:00 PM
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EP016: Seamstress (http://escapepod.org/2005/08/25/ep016-seamstress/)
By Sarah Prineas.
Read by Deborah Green.
So, the Godmother. She takes ragged, smudged things and turns them into beautiful Princesses. Why, I don’t know. A hobby? A calling? An obsession? Is she righting the wrongs done to her when she was young?
When I first started here, I had a fantasy. That the Godmother would pluck me out of the row of humpbacked, squinting Seamstresses and make me, too, a beautiful Princess. With a gown sewn by…well, by the poor wenches too old or ugly to catch the Godmother’s eye.
Rated PG. Contains sexual situations and, unrelated, the loss of innocence.
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Listen to this week’s Escape Pod! (http://media.rawvoice.com/escapepod/media.libsyn.com/media/escapepod/EP016_Seamstress.mp3)
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Ah, the stories behind the stories, how I like this subgenre. Foolish me, I never even wondered where the Fairy Godmother got the goods!