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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

It is our last podcast for the month of May. And I just, I am so

amazed at how the time is flying by. It's June, it's incredible. And because time is flying by, what a better moment to go back

and really figure out what your favorite Clark's World stories have been over the past couple of years.

And that's exactly what David Stephan has done over at Diabolical Plots.

He's chosen his favorite May 2011 to May 2012, Best's World Stories in the podcast form. So if you've got a couple

seconds and you want to go investigate, it's W.W. dot diabolical plots.com slash question mark P equals 3.310.

Now our fifth story is titled from Bables Fallen Glory We Fled. It's a reprint and it was

written by Michael Swanwick. Now I have to warn you this story does have a weird

sort of visualization that works on print but not necessarily an audio.

So I'm going to do the best I possibly can and are not to confuse the hell out of you

while I read this story to you.

Neil and I were trying to rack our brains on the best possible way to explain the branched

conversations that take place within the story.

And the only thing that we can come up with that's not terribly confusing is within each of these branches

There are usually three different ways that Michael uses grammar in order to get his feeling across.

The first is in parentheses, which I will be speaking in a lower, like a quieter voice.

The second is within brackets, which I will be adding an emphasis to, and then between carrots,

which I will be using a different voice to. If you are at all confused, I would suggest possibly

listening along while reading the story on the website itself. And we've run

into this issue before where there's been capitalizations and then the

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