You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

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

It's our second podcast for the month of August 2014.

There's not much real news to report, so I will jump right into the story.

The piece is titled Bonfires in Anacostia and is by Joseph Tamaras.

Joseph now lives in a small town in southern Maine following Sojournes of varying length in New York City, Washington, D.C. Durham, Nashville, Urbana, Champagne, Binghamton, Albany, Great Barrington, Lake Placid,

the indistinguishable suburban expanses of Palm Beach County, Florida, Athens, Greece, and Los Angeles.

His fiction has appeared in the Big Click and Flapper House, with other pieces soon to appear in the Fantastic Japan, Haikosoro, and M Big Pulp.

His opinions on the precise shape and he

he masochistically encourages strangers to yell at him on Twitter at EPAT-E-U-R-T-E-U-R.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

One. The Table.

On the left-hand side of the coffee table were stacked three Michael Shebon novels, one each by T.C. Boyle and Tim O'Brien, and a volume of Nathaniel

West collected works. On the right were five guides to maximizing fertility and two novels

by Tessa. In between were two stemless wine glasses.

The table itself was a clear polymer which were it not encumbered with the remains of its

owner's outmoded bibliomania, would reveal itself as a fully operational touch screen.

It was designed, however, to require replacement as soon as it received a hard whack, the sort of urbane furnishing that only a childless couple

would have purchased.

An advantage of this table from the perspective of those charged with maintaining homeland

security is that its voice

activated features kept it in a continual state of attentive listening.

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