Podcast Episode 42: Exit Here

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Aaron: It’s the Reckoning Press Podcast. I’m Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader and author for today’s story. Andrew Kozma brings us “Exit Here” from Reckoning 3. This one’s a story of a small group of desperately underfunded researchers battling the ecological collapse of a lake made all the worse by eariler attempts at environmental stablilization. If I had to bring up only one thing I love about this story, it’s how Kozma has brought so much history to such a small space. Watching the destruction of the lake has quite a few parallels to other well-intentioned attempts to slow a death-spiral. The introduction of mongooses to Hawaii, for example.

Let’s find the beauty in the murk, listeners. “Exit Here” is starting real soon.

Exit Here by Andrew Kozma

Author: Andrew Kozma

Andrew Kozma’s fiction appears in Apex, ergot., and Analog, while his poems appear in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, and Contemporary Verse 2. His first book of poems, City of Regret, won the Zone 3 First Book Award, and his second book, Orphanotrophia, was published in 2021 by Cobalt Press. You can find him on Bluesky at @thedrellum.bsky.social and visit his website at www.andrewkozma.net.

 

Portrait by Wolf William Say.

Author: Aaron Kling

Audio Editor

Aaron Kling is a podcaster, fiction writer, and voice talent working out of the Midwest. He enjoys obsessing over worldbuilding, running tabletop campaigns, and talking to his partner, his friends, and himself.

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