Escape Pod 289: Flash Contest Honorable Mentions
Show Notes
This episode has three of the honorable mentions from the flash contest we held on our forums.
Captain Max Stone versus DESTRUCTOBOT!
By Angela Lee
Read by: Joshua McNichols
When last we left our heroes, Captain Max Stone and his brother Billy had just navigated Hyperion’s perilous asteroid field and battled their way into the fortified base of the villainous robot Destructobot. The dastardly robot’s latest scheme is the deadliest yet – he intends to destroy the Earth using a high-powered negabomb! Will Max stop Destructobot in time? Or will the earth be vaporized?
Many Mistakes, All Out of Order
By M. C. Wagner
Read by: Wilson Fowlie
The first mistake was in our thinking they were ghosts. In our defense, the tradition of vanishing, translucent figures wailing in the night might’ve influenced us.
Mr. Omega
By Arnold Gardner
Read By: Marshall Latham
Mr. Omega checked the time on his trans-dimensional pocket watch and stared out the taxi’s rain pelted window. Four minutes to midnight. Four minutes to the culmination of his life’s work.
About the Authors
Angela Lee
Angela Lee is a long time Escape Pod fan and contributor, both on the forums and to the Artemis Rising event.
About the Narrators
Marshal Latham
Marshal Latham is known around Escape Artists as “Swamp” and runs the podcast Journey Into…
Wilson Fowlie
Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits any talent he has in this area to his parents, who are both excellent at reading aloud.
He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008, when he answered a call for readers on the PodCastle forum. Since then, he has gone on to become PodCastle’s most prolific narrator, reading or appearing in over 30 episodes.
He’s also narrated for many other podcasts, including all of the other Escape Artists ’casts, StarShipSofa and other District of Wonder podcasts, Beam Me Up, Cast Macabre, Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine and the Journey Into… podcast. He fits in all this narrating between his day job as a web developer in Vancouver, Canada, acting in local theatre productions and looking for voice acting jobs.
Joshua McNichols
Joshua McNichols is a reporter at KUOW Public Radio in Seattle and a co-host of Prime(d), a podcast about what happens when Amazon comes to your town.
