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

Greetings Clarksville citizens.

Welcome to July. I hope that you're doing very, very well. I hope that these stories that you've been

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Our story is titled Every Hopeless Thing it is by Tia Tashiro.

Tia Tashiro is a multiracial science fiction and fantasy writer hailing from the Pacific

Northwest.

By day, she works in a neurobiology lab by night she writes, and in between she dabbles in stained glass and

juggling though never at the same time.

Her short fiction is published in Clark's World Uncanny and is forthcoming in Apex. And if you like which here you can go back to an intergalactic smuggler's

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