You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is the first podcast in the month of August and just

like July I'm thinking that August is going to fly right by. With that said if you are coming to Worldcon I know that a good

majority of the Clarkfold staff will be there so come by and say hello and if

you voted in the Hugo's which I've been gently prodding you to do. Thank you. So without any

other news to report, let's get on to our first story titled Cry of the Carll by Vondana Singh.

Vondana Singh was born and raised in New Delhi, India.

She acquired a passion for inventing her own myths around the age of 11 and obtained a PhD in theoretical particle physics in

her 20s.

She now teaches physics at a small state university near Boston.

Her short stories have appeared most recently in the other half of the sky, edited by Athena

And Shredis, and Solaris Rising 2, edited by Ian Waits, and several have been reprinted in Best of Year anthologies. Of this story she states,

I am indebted to the Bolivian writer and critic Miguel Esquiro,

for invaluable feedback as well as information about Bolivia.

Many errors or omissions are my sole responsibility.

So sit back, relax, grab a cool drink for these last dog days of summer, and let me tell you a story.

She was no more than a breath, a tongue of air tasting, sensing, divining.

She swept through the hotel ramparts like the subtlest of breezes.

She had done it, made time stand still.

Her people so scattered now, so weak, had helped her draw the power from the

sandstorm, turning its energy against itself so that for a brief moment, it lassoed time itself.

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