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

Greetings Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well as always.

Summer here in the United States is running down down down.

I'm a little depressed, but also a little excited because what the fall

brings hay rides and pumpkins and apple picking, cooler temperatures, windows

open before winter starts, it's chill.

Where you are in this world, I hope that you are doing wonderfully well.

Our next story for the month of August 2015 is titled Dying Young and is by Peter M. Ball.

Peter is the author of Horn, lead, and the Flotsam Novella series from Apocalypse Inc. productions.

His short stories have appeared in venues such as Weird Tales, Electric Philosophy, Eclipse 4, and Daily Science Fiction.

You can find Peter at his website Peter M.ball.com.

So without further ado, sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I smelled him coming long before he arrived.

A musty odor of sulfur and dust cutting through the sweat stink and

Cassidy saloon. Smelling things is part of it. That thing I inherited from

my da. But it weren't just me who noticed it by the time he got close.

The dragon stank bad enough that everyone breeds him in.

The entire room hushing up, listening to the tic-tac of claws on the hardwood,

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