Read by Bruce McDonald
Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald
Old Folk’s Homewas originally published in the Jim Baen’s Universe. Mr Kratman’s fiction has also appeared in Aeon Speculative Fiction, Dark Recesses Press, and many other markets.
Bobby Cullivan finished entering the staff schedules and leaned back in his chair, doing his best to ignore the arthritic twinge in his hip. It was nice to be calling the shots again.
His son, Joe, did a decent job managing the retirement station, but Bobby missed being in charge. Joe went down to Earth once every three months for a few weeks of high gravity and Bobby looked forward to his son’s time away.
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Gosh Darned Excellent!
An old man as the protagonist? Now that’s a sci-fi story I can really get into! Clonepod has come up with a lot of fiction that usually better than EscapePod’s fare.
Good work, youngsters.
Now, you kids, quite wasting your time on that dang SPOR game and get to reading!
Great story and reading.
I’ll make it a third for the reading part. Thanks, everyone involved.
Old Man Parker and Bingorange: thanks to you, too.