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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this final podcast finds you well. This is six out of six that we

featured in the month of April 2013. And aren't you lucky you get another podcast on May 1st, just two days.

I think I'm going to have to drop dead and recover for a little while after this one.

The piece is titled, The Nistera, and it's by David Moles.

David shares a birthday with Robert Goddard,

Vachlav Havel, Kate Winslet, and the R 101 disaster.

He has lived in seven time zones on three continents

and hoped someday to collect the whole set.

David was a finalist for the 2005 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which he lost to Elizabeth Bear. His novellet Finestata won the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award.

His fiction and poetry have been published in Rabid Transit, Fly Trap, Lady Churchill's

Rose Bud Rislet, Asimov's, and the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

as well as On Strange Horizon.

And he can now add Clark's World for that list as well. He co-wetted all-star Zeppelin adventure stories with

Jay Lake and the World Fantasy Award nominated 20 epics with Susan Mary

Gropi. David's website can be found at Kronenot.org, that's K-R-O-N-A-U-T.

So sit back, relax, this is a long one, and let me tell you a story.

One, andkentata.

Bianca and Azario stands at the end of the world.

The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood mirrored in the waters of La Cadara.

But where the skies she remembers were bounded by mountains.

Here on sky there is no real horizon, only a line of white cloud.

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