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

Greetings Clark's

Clerks World Citizens, I hope this podcast finds you very well. It's our third story for the month of April 2014,

and this is where I'm gonna squeeze that extra story in for the month. The piece is titled

Aro-Dydact by Benjamin Shri Dwenkow. Benjamin enjoys writing love letters to cities real and speculative,

and lots of space opera when she can get away with it.

Her works can be found in beneath ceaseless skies, the dark,

the mammoth book of steampunk adventures. can be found in beneath ceaseless skies, the dark, the Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures,

and Solaris Rising, 3.

They are also reprinted in the Best Science Fiction Fantasy of the Year, Volume 8,

The Year's Best science and fantasy 2014, and the mammoth book of

SF stories by women.

Her novella, Scale Bright, is forthcoming from Immersion Press.

She can be found at her website, bekean, that's B-E-K-I-A-N dot Wordpress. com. And if you like what you hear, Benjamin can also be found with Silent Bridge Pale Cascade in the December 2013 issue and annex in April 2013.

So without further ado, sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

On Sri Sunthorn Station, the corpses of conquered stars are nurtured into ships.

They may become shelters from solar winds,

orbitals giving company to lonely planets, mausoleums for the sainted.

But long ago an Admiral came bringing a toll of dead and trailing carcasses of worlds.

Her armor was hammered out of battle formations and broken alliances, welded by secret plans and

sudden annihilation.

She cast it down before the engineers,

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