These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new admin.

All hail the admin Joshua Boucher.

Joshua Boucher has been a listener of the other stories for, well, I could only assume since the beginning of time.

He is now taken over as admin of the Hawke and Reader's Facebook Book Club.

So join me in welcoming Joshua to the TOS Towers,

helping us to make cool stuff and talk about cool stuff.

And as first act of acting admin,

Joshua Boucher has chosen to launch a nuclear strike on the moon.

And his second act of admin, he's launched to vote for our September book reads.

So if you'd like to join an easy, breezy book club, reading the best genre fiction

this side of an exploding moon, then come to the Facebook group today and introduce

yourselves at Facebook.com, forward slash groups, forward slash hawk and cleaver.

Joshua looks forward to seeing you there.

So, today's episode is The Machine of the Flame Beasts, written by Daniel Lauren Keating,

and narrated by Persephone Rose.

When Shy asked Poeth, leader of the Sharouf collective, first heard about the box,

he knew that his organization had to have the device at all costs.

Information at that point on the nature of the device was slim.

Found in the wreckage of a corporate exploratory spacecraft in the asteroid belt, the device was

simple, a half foot cubed, with no moving parts, and yet it glowed and radiated heat, constantly

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