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Clarkesworld Magazine

Gray Wings by Karl Bunker (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our seventh podcast for March is “Gray Wings” written by Karl Bunker and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April-May 2013.

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A lot of hard work goes into producing each issue of Clark's World per month.

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Anywhere from six to seven stories are curated, edited, narrated, produced, and offered for your listening pleasure.

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Are we worth a dollar or more? and offered for your listening pleasure.

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Go to www.

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Patreon.com

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forward slash Clark'sworld and please show your support. You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

0:44.3

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

0:48.6

This is our last story for the month of March 2016.

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The piece is titled Gray Wings

0:56.8

and is by Carl Bunker.

0:59.5

Carl Bunker's short stories

1:00.9

have appeared in Asimov's Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Interzone, Cosmos,

1:06.3

The Year's Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere.

1:09.0

In the past, Bunker has been a software developer, Jeweler, Musical instrument maker, sculptor, and mechanical technician.

1:16.2

He currently lives in a small town north of Boston, Mass, with his wife, sundry pets, and an assortment

1:22.4

of wildlife.

1:25.0

You can find Carl at his website Carl Bunker.com.

1:31.0

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. It was just carelessness. I'd gotten into the wake turbulence of an old jetliner that was still low after taking off from Lagos. The wing-tip vortices off of those old

1:56.8

buckets can trail behind them for 50 or 100 kilometers and, well, it was careless.

2:03.0

So I tumbled and spun and twisted and generally had a bad time of it, and then I fell.

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