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

Greetings Clark's ruled citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to a new month, July 2018.

Yay, we made it.

Exhausted. I hope you're doing well. As with any new month I renew my call for support.

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Another great big hug your way. I think we all need that, right? And for those of you who haven't yet supported us, please consider

doing so. Our first story for the month of July 2018, issue 142 is titled Gubbinal by Lavi Tidhar.

Lavi Tidhar is the author of the Jurwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and

Premio Roma nominee a man lies dreaming the World Fantasy Award winning

Osama and of the Campbell Award winning in Locusts and Clark

Award nominated Central Station. His latest novels are the forthcoming

Unholy Land and First Children's novel Candy. He is the author of many other

novels, novellas, and short stories.

So my dear listeners, let's jump right into this I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story

Sahar, moving softly through the river valley, made sure to listen. The sound filtered into her helmet from the external mics, and she imagined this must be what hiking on Earth must be like.

She listened to the wind, to the rumble overhead from the active ice volcano, to the storm

raging on the horizon.

But most of all she listened for any movement, for anything with design that may be scuttling about or was trying to hide.

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