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If the Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2012

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our second piece of audio fiction for June is "If the Mountain Comes" written by An Owomoyela and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:17.0

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. The staff here at Clark's World magazine would like to express their deepest sympathies to the family of Ray Bradbury. I think Mr. Bradbury's passing

0:27.4

touched a lot of people in the literary world, not just the science fiction and fantasy community.

0:33.0

On the day that everyone found out, I had people come up to me and say,

0:37.0

did you hear, if anything, I think that is a testament to the man's body of work and how much influence he had within the literary world.

0:48.0

I bid you, adieu, Mr Bradbury. Rest and peace.

0:55.0

There's not much else news to report, except for the three seconds I'm going to take to tell you to get your

1:00.8

Hugo votes in, if you aren't attending or supporting member of this year's

1:05.0

Worldcon in Chicago.

1:07.7

So let's just jump into the second story of the month for June 2012 issue number 69 the piece is entitled if the mountain

1:17.0

comes by An A A A A A A A's A A A's Author with, author with a background in web development linguistics and weaving chain mail

1:28.1

out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Asimov science fiction,

1:34.8

light speed, and a pair of years bests.

1:38.6

Ons, interests range from watershed management and desertification to gender studies and non-standard pronouns, with a plethora of stops in between. You may find on at a n dot o w o m o m o y m o y A N dot O W O M O Y E L A dot Net.

1:57.0

And if the name sounds familiar to Clark's Red Listeners,

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also has a story in July 2011 of last year's archives entitled frozen voice.

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So without further ado, let me tell you a story.

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Transoe and Papa were outside, discussing what to do if the water rose. I was in scrubbing blood

2:26.3

from the walls with a palm full of sand. That was the summer, Ena came to our village.

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He led a donkey and the donkey pulled a cart with tools, a flowering lilac, and a barrel of fresh water.

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The barrel made Ena richer than the doctor, richer than the preacher.

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Richer than anyone but us, and he meant to change that.

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