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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Welcome to the

fifth story for the month of July 2025, issue 226. Our story is titled Bits and Pieces on this

floor and is by Eric Del Carlo.

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Now our author, Eric Del Carlos, short fiction, has appeared in multiple issues of analog and

Asimovs.

This is his second appearance with Clark's World.

His latest novel is The Cold from White Cat Publications.

He lives in his native California.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to Set of Angels.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Terraforming Colossi.

The sorts are corp manufactured at any rate.

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