You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. This is our third

story for the month of July 2023 issue 202. I hope that wherever you are, the weather is allowing

you to go outside, maybe drag a podcast with you so that you can listen to a story while you

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So our story is titled Estivation Troubles and is by Bob Alder.

Bob is no stranger here to Clarksville. She lives and works close to Amsterdam.

But it's also the first Dutch author to have been published in Clarksville, FNSF,

analog, and other places. For SF novel, The One was published by Pink Narcissus Press,

when not writing She Knits, Reads, and Gardens, preferably all three at the same time.

Like I said, there's plenty of stories you can go back and listen to if you're a fan of Bob.

Some are Love and the Season of New Dance, The Pirates Concigliari, Hatching,

the answer with snails, the force exerted on the mass of a body.

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

The shuttle announced it to part your time just as Stevie zipped her last bag shut.

She'd been packed days ago, but she was so nervous about meeting her family again after all

these years, that she'd compulsively unpacked and checked daily. It was going to be winter on Blanca,

so warm clothes, real clothes unlike the flimsy shipboard pajama-like things she'd worn the

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