Escape Pod 862: The Pill (Part 2 of 2)
By Meg Elison (Continued from Part 1) The Pill sold like nothing had ever sold before. The original, the generic, the knockoffs, the different versions approved in Europe and Asia that met their standards and got rammed through their testing. There was at last a cure for the obesity epidemic. Fat people really were an endangered species. And everybody was so, so glad. One in ten kept dying. The average never improved, not in any corner of the globe. There were memorials for the famous and…
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