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Escape Pod 956: Vault (Part 1 of 2)

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Vault (Part 1 of 2) By D.A. Xiaolin Spires Chenguang hikes up her sleeves before vaulting over the pile of fuzzy moss and greets Lukas with a nod. The chloropolyurethane fabric flaps in the slight breeze and the double suns beat down onto her arms. Lukas fishes in his bag next to his tent for a bottle of sunsoak and releases the spray, running it generously over his solflex-covered arms, torso, and legs. “Your head,” Chenguang says and he smiles, as if he hadn’t been doing this for years.…

Space OperaDiasporaPost Apocalyptic

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DreadVisceralClass InequalityDeep SpaceTenseFast PacedFar FutureSacrificeMemorySurvivalSocial SFContemplativeClose Third PersonCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

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body-horror

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