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Escape Pod 782: Electronic Ghosts

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Electronic Ghosts By Innocent Chizaram Ilo I If Nneora had died two weeks earlier, her daughter, Anaeto, would not have resurrected her ghost. That was the night Nneora ran a fever, laid convulsing in bed, a slimy froth trickling from the corners of her lips. She had just finished telling Anaeto a story about a woman who fled home to find love. And when the fever subsided, she proceeded to talk to her late mother, Lolo-Nwa, in a tongue that reeked of everything living and dead. Dying on a night…

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Ambiguous EndingMotherhoodTenderUnsettlingConsciousnessIntimateUrbanMelancholicMemoryNear FutureLiterary SFContemplativeLiteraryClose Third PersonGrief And LossScience Fiction

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