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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It is our third story for the month of September,

issue 144, 2018. Once again, a very, very large and warm and

amazing big hug to all of you supporters out there.

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That's right, you wouldn't be listening to me if it weren't for you, so thank you. Our third story is titled Dandy Lion is by

Ellie Bangs. Ellie Bangs once rode her bicycle alone from Seattle to the Panama

Canal. Now she lives in the former fixing machines and

writing novels. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Galaxy's

Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Anthologies such as Bikes in Space

and The Working Zealots Guide to Gaining Capital in Pre-apocalyptic America.

She is a graduate of Clarion West 2017. So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

It was a century ago today

that you found the spark of life in this freeze-dried valley of death.

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