You are listening to a Clarksold magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to the second story for the month of July, 2026, issue 238. This should be a familiar one. It is by Fiona Moore, and it is titled Cliff's Girl. But more on that in a second. I want to thank you for your ongoing support of the magazine.

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Now back to our story by Fiona Moore.

Fiona Moore is a BSFA award-winning,

WFA shortlisted writer, academic, and critic,

author of management lessons from Game of Thrones and the

Mulrag and Seamus series of cozy post-apocalyptic stories. Her work has appeared in Clark's World

Escape Pod, Interzone, and seven consecutive editions of Best of British SF. She has published two novels,

including the BsFA, Award shortlisted Rabbit in the Moon. She makes miniatures and runs a blog about cooking food

from franchise Thai in cookbooks. She lives in London with an incredibly chill snowshoe cat.

Like I said, this is one of a series that we've been doing here at Clark's World.

You can go find the other stories in this world, some of which are titled The Iron Piper, the Cancer

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