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

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

This is our sixth story for the month of June 2019 issue 153.

The piece is titled Field Mice and is by Andy Dudak.

Andy Dudak is a writer and translator of science fiction.

His original stories have appeared in analog, apex,

Clark's World, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,

Rich Horton's Years Best and Elsewhere.

He's translated 12 stories for Clark's World and a novel by Lou Shishin, among other things.

In his spare time, he likes to binge watch peak television and eat

hui Muslim style cold sesame noodles.

You can find more about Andy at Andy Dudak.

Tumbler.com.

May 2013 brought you tacky psyche.

June 2015 brought you aymptotic and June 2017 brought you

Fool's cap.

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

The captured agent sits clamped into the hot seat, her cover washed away by

antiseptic light. We stare in wonder as if at some mythical creature poached from the land of Fay.

We've never had something like her in our out-of-the-way little security station.

You're going to be uploaded, Captain Mazz says. Nothing can change that now, but it's a lengthy process.

You're currently in the pre-limbed scanning stage, during which you can still talk.

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