alt.hn

7/1/2026 at 9:15:41 PM

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

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

by rbanffy

7/1/2026 at 9:45:16 PM

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.

by cianmm

7/1/2026 at 10:32:38 PM

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

by imglorp

7/2/2026 at 12:01:07 AM

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

by beastcoast

7/2/2026 at 10:36:26 AM

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.

by rbanffy

7/2/2026 at 12:24:21 PM

> 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).

by pseudohadamard

7/2/2026 at 1:48:00 AM

I loved this story and writing.

by firesteelrain

7/1/2026 at 9:31:57 PM

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

by rekabis

7/1/2026 at 10:07:38 PM

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.

by pfdietz