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

Greetings, Clarkville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. Welcome to the first story of the month

for September, issue 228. As always, this issue as with our past and hopefully all of our future

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So our first story for the month of September is titled, Abstraction is when I design giant

death creatures and attraction is when I do it for you. It is by Claire Jowen. Claire Jiaowen is a

speculative fiction writer originally from the 626 and has been published in Corio and Clark's World,

a viable paradise alum. She is currently his students studying media studies and algorithmic fairness.

If you like what you hear, Claire has a few stories here in Clark's World,

if an algorithm can cast a shadow, which was June 2025,

celestial migrations, February 2025, and mirror stages, November 2024.

So, my day listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

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