You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you as well as can be all things considered.

I want to thank you for showing up. I want to thank you for escaping with us. And I want to thank you for your ongoing support.

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if you aren't already. We cannot put this magazine together each and every month without

your generous and wonderful support. So thank you. Our second to last story for the month of

August is called A Dream of Twin Sunsets and is by author

Ryan Cole.

Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snugly

pug child.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Clark's World, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Cast of

Wonders, and this way lies madness, Flame tree press, among others, and has been nominated

for the Pushcart Prize. If you like what you hear, you can go back to from Enceladus with

love, and waffles are only goodbye for now. So my dear listener, I do hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

I met him on my first glider mission to the fields beyond the dandelion.

We were both young men then.

His patchy beard still blonde, his sunburned cheeks not yet wrinkled from the years out in the wild.

His name not yet carved into the secret prayers I whispered every night into my pillow,

once my wife went to sleep.

I'm buzz, he said to me, the gentle zee, like the bee swarms that darkened the pink skies,

the giant bees we'd

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