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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. Here at Clarks World we would like to Thanks, I don't believe there's any other news to report so I'm going to jump right into the third story for the month of August 2013

Which is titled Found by Alex Dally McFarland.

Alex has also got a story in the May 2009 Clark's World Magazine issue

titled The Devonshire Arms.

So if you like what you hear, go pay that one a visit as well.

Alex lives in London where she is pursuing an MA in ancient history.

When not researching narrative transmission in the Alexander romance traditions, she writes stories found in the other half of the sky,

heiresses of Russ 2013, the year's best lesbian speculative fiction, beneath ceaseless

skies, shimmer and zombies, shambling through the ages. Poetry can be found in

stone telling the moment of change and here we cross. She is the editor of Aliens's Recent Encounters

2013 and the Mammoth Book of SF stories by women forthcoming in late

2014.

Her website can be found at Alex Dally McFarland and that's A-L-E-X-D-A-L-Y-M-A-C-F-A-R-L-N-E. Dot-O-K-O-N-T-O-O-O-N-T-O-F-A-N-E. dot cop.

So, without further ado, let me tell you the story.

Star Anis. Star Anis was the contents of one drawer in my spice cabinet.

Was worth one good energy cell or three not so good ones or six bad ones or eight that provided

barely any power at all.

I had never traded for just one energy cell. None remained. At this last asteroid I had not traded for any. I found its interior

spaces opened and airless, blast marked. Most of its equipment broken are gone, debris, shards of metal, rock, old

scint the materials blackened bits of bone, still lodged in some deep crannies.

In such a small asteroid, a sudden equipment failure could be

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