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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. It is the end of summer here in the United States. I look up and it was

gone. It was just very sad. But you know what? This means the fall is coming. This means ripe apples and clear

crisp evenings if the heat ever dies down. So I hope whatever you find yourself doing you can enjoy the eighth

and final story for August 2016 issue 119. The piece is titled A Stopped Clock and is by Madeline Ashby.

Madeline is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her latest novel, Company Town, is

available now from Tor Books. She is also a columnist with the Ottawa Citizen.

She has written science fiction prototypes for Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future,

Sci Futures, Nesta, Data and Society, and many others.

You can find her at her website, Madeline Ashby.com.

So I hope you can sit back, relax, or get whatever you're getting done done,

and let me tell you. get whatever you're getting done, done.

And let me tell you a story.

They don't go out to drink anymore. Jun, Seo said.

They get everything delivered these days.

That's the problem.

They're all dieting, Ha Aeun said. They won't eat rice.

Rice.

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