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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our last story for the month of May 2019, issue 152.

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So our last story is titled Bad Day on Boscabelle by Alexander Yablikoff.

With only a handful of stories, mostly for Asimov's, and a few well-received novels.

Alexander has established himself as one of the most highly regarded new writers of the 90s.

His first novel, Car of the Sky, was released in 91, and was followed by other successful novels such as A Deeper Sea, Nimbus, River of Dust, and Deep Drive,

as well as a collection of his short fiction,

The Breath of Suspension.

His most recent novel is Brain Thief.

You can find more about Alexander at A J A BA-B-L-O-K-O-V. And if you like what you hear, March 2017 brought you at the Cross Time Jonters Ball.

So my dear listeners, let's just jump right in.

I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Dunya stopped just outside of Phineas's unit to calm herself down.

Otherwise she would burst in and start screaming at him.

That was no way to start a check-in meeting with one of her refugees.

That gave her a chance to realize that she looked like hell.

She'd already had one fight that morning with her daughter,

Bodil, and afterwards she had rushed out, unsnapped, and unbrushed.

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