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69.1 Floating

The crew of a long-haul space shuttle begin to splinter after the mysterious disappearance of one of their own.


Written by Georgia Cook (https://www.twitter.com/GeorgiaCooked)

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.twitter.com/JustinBFife)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://www.twitter.com/KarlHughes)

With music by Chris Zabriskie (https://chriszabriskie.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org


The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)


Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/


Justin Fife is an audio producer, amateur voice actor, podcaster, and video game lover. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/justinbfife.


You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver

T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver

Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services 



The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it. 

Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/

Justin Fife is an audio producer, amateur voice actor, podcaster, and video game lover. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/justinbfife.

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