Greetings Clercherel citizens. Welcome to the 5th story for the month of June, issue 213.

The piece is titled, Himalayan is by Carrie Vaughn. And you know how we bring you these pieces each and every month?

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You are the momentum that drives us forward. Now our author, Carrie Vaughn's work includes a Philip

K Dick Award winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times best-selling Kitty novel Urban Fantasy

series, over 20 novels and upwards of a hundred short stories, two of which

have been finalists for the Hugo Award.

Her next novel, The Naturalist Society, is about 19th century ornithologists, awkward love triangles and the magic of binomial, nomenclature, an

Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.

Carrie is no stranger here to Clark's world.

If you like what you hear, go back to vast and trunkless legs of stone.

Holly and not Charles conquer the solar system and Astrophilia.

So my dear lesson, I hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story. Outside the viewport, light and shadow stitched a tapestry across the surface of Himalaya.

The shuttle ticked the countdown, thrusters firing to control descent to the docking cradle at

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