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

Greetings Clarkshold citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. This is our second

story for the month of October 2022 issue one ninety three. I hope that you've enjoyed

all the stories. Or maybe this is your first time here at the podcast. I hope you enjoyed

this one. And if you should choose to do so, we could use your support. Please go to patreon.com

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the magazine each and every month. Every bit helps. So as I mentioned, this is our second story.

This is titled Coding Van Hoek. This by Elaine Gau. Elaine Gau is currently a junior at an

Oklahoma high school and moved to the US with her family almost four years ago. Her passion for

reading young adult fiction sparked her interest in a writing career. Whenever she has time,

she fills it by writing poetry, short stories, and even novels. Elaine is currently in the final

stages of publishing her first novel, The Oracle. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back relax

and let me tell you a story. And a note about pronunciation really quickly.

The title of the story again is Coding Van Hoek. Sometimes in American English, we call it Van Go.

And in the UK, they call him Van Gof. Just wanted to let you know who we were talking about here.

With that said, I do hope you can sit back and relax and let me tell you a story.

A paintbrush still dipped in Prussian blue dissolved into a stream of code. Tara peaked at the

zeros and ones sneaking up her wired arms, dimly illuminating the very human veins underneath.

Her eyes shut. Starry night. Violently controlled waves tamed only by the canvas,

cupped in its palms, gold, amber, and rusted orange wheels stuck to their eternal task, spinning.

Geometry dictated the establishment in their penumbra. Dark and shrouded, the people in the village

as a whole gladly groveling in the shadows of the celestial bodies. Except the gnarled tree,

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