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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Lane Robins's "Road Test." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Lane, here.

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Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
Lane Robins is the author of Maledicte and Kings & Assassins, and the romance novel Renovation. Under the name Lyn Benedict, she writes the Shadows Inquiries series. Her short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, Penumbra, and in Nightmare Magazine. She currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas. To contact her, send email to lanerobins@gmail.com. For more about her and her work, see her website.
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