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

Greetings Clarksvold Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our issue 150 for March 2019. Our third

story is titled Death of an Air Salesman and is by Rich Larson.

To those of you who are our subscribers or our patrons over at Patreon.com forward slash

Clarksworld, thank you so much for making this issue possible, this story possible, this

podcast possible. You guys are amazing and thanks to all of our listeners who come by each and every story.

So our author, Rich Larson, no stranger here to Clarksville.

He was born in Niger and has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain and now lives in Ottawa, Canada.

His work appears in numerous years best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, French,

and Italian.

He was the most prolific author of short science fiction in 2015, 2016, and possibly 2017 as well. His debut novel annex was published by

Orbit Books in July 2018 and his debut collection tomorrow Factory followed in October 2018 from Tallis Press.

You can find Rich at his website Rich W Larson. Tumblr.com and I also believe he's got a Patreon

so please go visit that as well.

He's got so many stories here in Clark's World that I'm just going to list off the top three, the most recent ones. In April 2018, Carrecelling, which was awesome. Other

Mother, August 2018, which was a excerpt from his novel Annex. An Octo Heist in Progress was November 2018, which was a fun kick-ass story. So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back and relax and let me tell you a story.

Towering cliffs topped with bright lush greenery.

Cold clean waves crashing against the stone below sleek grey clouds,

swirling through the unbound sky above. A woman dances along the

edge, her long hair and scarf whipped wild by the wind. Her bare face is enraptured, eyelids fluttering, nostrils flared, as she draws

in breath after breath of Apex Air.

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