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Book club, book club, book club, book club, book club.

Solstice book club.

That's what people always call us.

It's a solstice book club.

Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone Media Book Club, the only podcast where you don't

have to do the reading because I do it for you. I'm your host Margaret Kiljoy, and this week and

next week, I have a story that I wrote. Happy Solstice, everyone, to honor the dark, to celebrate the

return of the light, and to indulge yourselves in the legacy of storytelling and gift giving.

I'm going to share first of two parts of one of my own stories.

Next week, you'll get the second half.

And this story means a lot to me.

This story is called Everything That Isn't Winter, which is a... Okay, look, it takes place in Beltane,

but it's called Everything That Isn't Winter,

and it's about how one relates to the season of winter.

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