I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/

by rbanffy • 21 days ago

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rekabis• 21 days ago

This was a nice one-shot. Concise, clear, and not cluttered. It should also be posted to Reddit’s HFY subreddit.

pfdietz• 21 days ago

I can't connect to that now, but that's the title of a copyrighted Lawrence Watt-Evans story, one that won a Hugo award.

fsckboy• 21 days ago

it is Lawrence Watt-Evans, he has a page there

https://escapepod.org/people/lawrence-watt-evans/

cianmm• 21 days ago

What a lovely surprise to see EscapePod. One of the early early podcasts. If you search through their backlog along with the backlog of their sister podcasts, you’ll find some narrations from a much younger, less tired, me.

I miss that age of podcasting. I’m glad EscapePod is still going.

imglorp• 21 days ago

Still going strong. They're up to 1051. I donate recurring because good, open, content should be supported.

theamk• 21 days ago

hug of death. Archive: https://archive.is/jaw2F

glaucon• 21 days ago

It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod... .

beastcoast• 21 days ago

Great short story. The premise reminds me of Simpsons treehouse of horror episode “Time and Punishment” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V

rbanffy• 21 days ago

It's one of my favorites. It took me some time to find it after reading it in a pulp magazine a long time ago.

firesteelrain• 21 days ago

I loved this story and writing.

gwern• 21 days ago

If you can't be awed by science and nature, you can't be awed by magic or alien worlds either... Reminds me of some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

pentagrama• 21 days ago

Wow, this podcast has been bringing science fiction stories to listeners since 2005. [1]

[1] https://escapepod.org/2005/05/12/ep001-imperial-by-jonathon-...

pseudohadamard• 21 days ago

Because my folks lived in a little house just around the corner from Harry’s,

Was life going swell and everything was just peachy except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning your mother would make you a big ol' bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast?

(Now try re-reading it without it coming across as a Weird Al voiceover).

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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