You are listening to a Clarkswold magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Reading with Clarkswold citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our final story for the month of May, issue 176.

I hope that you've enjoyed May's stories.

And as ever, we will continue all the stories into June, July and August and beyond.

And that is thanks to you, for your support, for your ongoing listenership, for going to

patreon.com forward slash Clarkswold or subscribing to the magazine.

We can't do this without you, so thank you very much.

Our last story is titled a star for every word unspoken and is by Kai Hudson.

Kai Hudson lives in sunny California where she writes hikes and rock blinds with enthusiasm

if not skill.

Our work has appeared in podcastle, interzone, anathema, spec from the margins, and other

fine places.

You can find Kai at KaiHudson.com.

And also, Kai has another story here at Clarkswold, March 2019 brought you treasure diving.

So my dear listeners, I hope that you are doing well and that you're getting out, warm

up.

And promise, hopefully, good things.

So I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

They say, Amas in there, but she's not.

She's not.

It's just an empty metal capsule.

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