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

Greetings Clarksworld citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well

Unfortunately I was given a one-two punch throughout this month of February 2017.

The Baker household again received what is known as the Plague.

We all came down with some sort of variant of the flu. It made me

miss Bosgon. I lost my voice for a little while. It's still not at a

hundred percent but I'm not going to make you wait any longer.

And then, this week my father went back into the hospital.

It's been a really stressful time, but you know what?

I'm going to continue to trudge forward and I'm going to

lose myself and a little bit of fiction. The piece we're bringing to you right now is titled How Bees Fly and is by

Simone Heller. This is for issue 125 again February 2017. Simone Heller lives on an island in the river Danube, in a town near Munich, Germany.

As a literary translator, she lends her voice to writers in the SFF field by day.

By night she speculates on what if questions in her own words.

Obsessions include linguistics, in which she holds a master's degree,

and cartography in which she holds to a collection of maps far more senses than her wall

space. You can find Simone at her website, missnavigator.com. So I hope you can escape with me. I hope you can sit back. Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

This is how you defend yourself against the demons of old, should they cross your path.

You grind down their bones with a millstone and burn them.

The ash you bury under a black willow tree and salt the whole field where you happen to find them.

You seal off their artifacts and other possessions behind a

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