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Escape Pod 1007: 35 / F / Lane’s Creek, Oklahoma

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35 / F / Lane's Creek, Oklahoma By Hans Ege Wenger Sandra loaded. Boxes and pallets, mostly. Full of avocados, computer chips, plastic toys, etc. All carefully placed by her rubber-faced grippers into the trucks that darted in and out of the warehouse bays. On a good day, Sandra loaded something interesting. A heavy, oddly shaped package, requiring her to adjust her first person view goggles and sit forward in her chair, lips pursed in concentration. Or a tantalizing, vacuum-packed parcel bound…

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TenderQueer IdentityHopefulClass InequalityPolitical ResistanceWarmWrySocial SFBelongingClose Third PersonVoice DrivenCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

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