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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

We're still catching up from May due to the catastrophic technical issues we were having

plus my full-time job over at CIFWA led us to the

Nebula Conference, which is a labor-intensive endeavor. And while that conference is

now over, there is a lot of stuff that I still needed to catch up on including

these podcasts. So thank you once again for showing your support with your

patience. I hope to be caught up on everything by the end of this coming week.

So our third story for the month of May is titled A Stick of Clay

in the Hands of God is infinite potential. It is by JY

Neon Young. J. Y. Neun Young, they, them, is queer, non-binary, and the author of the Tensurate series of novellas from

Tour.com publishing, The Black Tides of Heaven, the Red Threads of Fortune, the Descent of Monsters,, and the ascent to Godhood.

Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Lambda

Literary Awards.

A Clarion West alum that graduated from the University of East Anglia

with an MA and creative writing

and currently live in Singapore. You can find them on Twitter at JY Neon Y

A N. And if you like what you hear, please go back to October 2016 for Old Domes.

September 2014 brought you patterns of a murmuration and billions of data points.

And dear listener, I hope you are doing well. I know that there is a lot of chaos and everything feels like it's on fire.

I hope that this story or any of the stories that you go to listen to bring you some sort of escape.

Hang in there.

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