You are listening to a Clark's Old magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Hope this podcast finds you guys wonderfully well.

We're on to our third story for the month of May 2018, issue 140.

The pieces title, Fleeing Osledge by Sally Gwyland. Sally Gwyland was born in Texas and raised all over the south

She now resides in New Mexico in a small handmade

Off the Grid house a half hour west of, where the wind blows more often than not.

A graduate of the 1985 Cleary and Writers Workshop, Miss Guylen, works part-time at a law firm

to allow time for writing, singing, gardening, and building stuff.

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and every month and thank you if you already are. So my dear listeners I want you to sit back relax and let me tell you a story. When I wake this time I smell that dawn is close. I remember the scent of it from childhood, sweet and brisk, and metallic like new grasses

crushed together with aniseed. Dawn smells better than the inside of Niseed.

Dawn smells better than the inside of this dead soldier sleeping bag, yet I choose to bury

my nose and aching belly and aching mind until full light if I dared.

But Pier would come and drag me out and take angry pleasure in it.

I do my best to avoid his attentions.

I wriggle out of the bag my clothes twisted and clammy and shiver when the air takes my

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