You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm going to jump into the second to the last

story for the month of December 2016 issue

123. The piece is titled A Soldier of the City is by David Moles. Now David is a past finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the John W. Campbell

Award for Best New Writer, as well as the winner of the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov Science Fiction,

the magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,

and various anthologies.

He lives in California with his family.

You can find him at his website Kronenot.org.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to April 2013 for Finisterra.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

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Color still image, recorded by landscape maintenance camera.

Gulana Bishidinum Park West. At the top of a hill is a football court. The net nearly knew but the bricks of the ground uneven, clumps of grass growing up from between the cracks. On the same side of the net are a man and a young girl.

The hollow rattan ball is above the girl's head, nearing the apex of its trajectory.

The girl balanced on the toes of her bare right foot, her left knee

raised, is looking toward the man. The man is looking away.

Cross reference with temple records identify the man as Ishmenin Cina,

Ninadin Shimai, age 28, temple soldier of the 219 surface Tactical Company, an underage officer of the third degree,

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