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Escape Pod 845: Across the River, My Heart, My Memory

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Across the River, My Heart, My Memory By Ann LeBlanc 1. I am Michelle’s artificial pancreas, stolen cleanly and carefully from her gut. The surgeons are quick; before I can finish my hard reset, they place me inside you. I don’t even have time to say goodbye to Michelle’s other organs. I know her heart — and all its memories of Tobin — is dead. Did the taser kill the others too? Why am I the only one awake — alive? I can’t say goodbye to Michelle, because she’s dead.

CyberpunkQueer IdentitySardonic

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BiopunkSecond PersonClass InequalityDefiantFragmentedTenseBodily AutonomyDarkIntimateUrbanMemoryNear FutureSocial SFGrief And LossVoice DrivenScience Fiction

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