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

Greetings, Clarkshield citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

I want to thank you for your ongoing patience. It's been a busy few months.

I have gotten married. And I've had to lay my mom to rest. This all happened within a brief period

of about two and a half to three weeks. And I am just catching up. And thank you for checking

up on me through Neil. As always, thank you so much for your ongoing support of the magazine.

I think next month we lose a big chunk of our income due to some changes that Amazon is making.

So if you can do so, please go to patreon.com for a slash Clarkshorell to see what your

options may be to help keep this magazine going. So our story is titled Death and Redemption

somewhere near to the city and is by Lou J. Berger.

Lou J. Berger lives in Denver, Colorado with his high school crush, three kids, two

shelty dogs, and a brilliant rescue mutt within a furious agenda. He has been published in a

variety of venues, including Galaxy's Edge and a host of anthologies. A member of Cifla, he is

now working on his first novel, although a fan of science fiction since he was a small boy reading

Tom Corbett space cadet, and of course the Heinlein juveniles. Lou also enjoys good mysteries and

has a special fondness for the noir environments. His favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, John Dean

McDonald, and Edgar Rice Burrows. So my jail listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you

a story. Elizabeth Maldon driving fast along the skeletal remains of Arizona's US 89

somewhere near to the city, so a far off glint and yanked her steering wheel hard to the left.

Her custom built tow truck left the broken road bed and plowed into the scrub,

red sand roosters hailing behind her, as the eight not be rear tires bit hard,

shredding small clumps of sage green bushes into confetti. Bouncing in her harness,

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