Jeff Stautz's guest appearances

Jeff Stautz

Machine of Death

Erin McKean

Ryan North

Jesse Thorn

Randall Munroe

Joanna Penn

Kris Straub

James L. Sutter

Howard Tayler

David Malki

Sean Casey

Daliso Chaponda

Chris Cox

Joel Watson

Tom Francis

M. Bennardo

OwlTail

Pepper coughs and her eyes snap open. Then she yelps and recoils from me, my white uniform and blue gloves, my belt blinking with electronics. "No, I'm fine," she says. "Just fainted, is all." She scrambles backward across the floor. Everyone tries to do this, soon as they recognize who we are and what we're there for. It never does any good. We already have our hands around Pepper's arms and I'm trying to shush her, keep her calm while Titus does the blood sample. He presses the tagger's piston to the inside of her left elbow. "Don't," she says. "I can explain."

LOSS OF BLOOD : Written by Jeff Stautz + read by Joel Watson