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 incredibly well. All things considered.

This is our last story for the month of October 2020, issue 169. We have a new slate of stories coming up for you in November and I want to thank you for your support.

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content each and every month. So our last story is titled

Ashes Under Eurekin and is by Adrastos O'Misei. Adrasos Omei is a Roman historian based at the University of Glasgow, UK, and a father of three.

In the rare moments when he is not occupied with either of these endeavors, he writes stories about

perception, loss, and loneliness.

He is the author of a number of published stories, including Business, By the Tracks, and the Spartan soldier.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Lottie moved quickly over the fallen trees and the tangled vegetation, lifting her legs clear of the grasping undergrowth.

She felt light today, free, and filled with energy.

She wanted to run and run until her limbs were burning.

It was the sunlight she knew. Today the sky was an endless vault of blue and the sunlight hummed off the

world. All morning she had sat on a rock beside a pool of deep, still

water sunning herself, whilst big green dragonflies buzzed about her doing just the same. Ordinarily she avoided deep water.

It scared her and looking at it forced her mind the thoughts of sinking down into the dark,

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