You are listening to the sixth story for the month of June, 2026 for Clarksville magazine,

issue 237. I do hope this podcast finds you as well as can be all things considered. I want to thank

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Our title of this story is titled Burning Day and is by Samantha Murray.

Samantha Murray's fiction has appeared in Clark's World, Asimov's Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Interzone Fantasy Magazine, beneath ceaseless skies, and a skate pod, among other places.

Samantha is a two-time Aurelius award winner, and her work has been translated in the Chinese and Vietnamese.

Samantha lives in Western Australia in a household of unruly boys.

If you like what you hear, there's plenty of stories to go back to, so I implore you to do so

once you're done listening to this one. You can go listen to the stars you can't see by looking

directly. Through these moments, darkly, somewhere it's about to be spring, preserved in

amber, and of sight, mind of heart so my dear listener

i hope that you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story you'd expected the gravity on vixiv

to be fractionally more than that on Earth.

It is not something you'd ever notice much, even in the beginning, beyond an exhaustion that

arrives by the end of the day, and settles over you like a blanket, weighted and heavy making

you sleep deeply.

You'd expected a certain amount of culture shock due to the enormity of meeting in alien species.

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