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 extraordinarily well.

It's our last story for the month of April 2017.

Issue 127, but please do not fret. There will be more stories coming in May and you can start the

process all over again. As I mentioned in the last previous podcasts, we're looking for some help with Neil's health care

expenses, mainly his insurance.

So if you are kind enough to send a dollar or more, please visit Patreon.com

for Clark's World. Or Clark's World magazine slash support. Our last story is

titled Ancient Engines. It is by Michael Swanwick.

Michael Swanwick has been writing since 1980.

He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Asimov's Reader's Award Poll.

His career is comprised of award-winning short stories and novels.

And his most recent books are a massive retrospective collection,

the best of Michael Swanwick, a new novel Dancing with Bears.

Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife Mary Ann Porter.

You can find him at his website flogging Babel. blog spot.com. And if you like what you hear, May 2013 brought you

from Babel's fallen glory, we fled, April 2014 brought you passage of earth, and October

2016 brought you the very pulse of the machine.

So I invite you to sit back, relax,talk. The words cut through the bar's chatter and

gab and silenced them. The silence reached out to touch infinity and then...

I believe you're talking to me? mexed the drunk laughed ain't nobody else here

sticking needles in his face is there the old man saw it all he lightly touched the hand of the young woman sitting with him and said,

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