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

Greetings Clarksville citizens, I help this podcast find you incredibly well.

This is our second story for the month of November 2021 issue 182.

I want to thank you for your patience, got a little bit of a late start with the podcast

I was traveling the beginning of the month, and then came home to catching up on all that

other work.

I have to pump out the next few of the next couple of days for your listening pleasure.

As always, thank you so much for your ongoing support at the magazine.

I thought your support Neil and I, and everyone who works here at Clarksville couldn't do

this.

We couldn't give you stories each and every month.

We couldn't put out issues with amazing art, with nonfiction, and with these podcasts.

So if you're in the giving spirit this holiday season, please consider just going to

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And you can be a part of making this magazine happen.

So our story is titled Dark Water Still Flow and is by Alice Toey.

So Alice Toey is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry based out of Northern California.

Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Fireside and Deep Magic.

She's a graduate of the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop, when she's not writing, she

works as a civil engineer specializing in water resources management.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The nitrogen was rising in my aeration basins, as an autumn wind scattered crimson leaves

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