Hello and welcome to the third story for the Clarks World magazine podcast, June 2025,

issue 225. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker and our story is titled In the Shells of Broken

Things and is by A.T. Greenblatt.

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Now our author, A.T. Greenblatt is a Nebula award-winning writer and mechanical

engineer. She lives in New York City where she's known to frequently subject her friends to

various cooking and home brewing experiments. Her work has been nominated for a Hugo, Locus,

World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Award, and has been in multiple years best anthologies,

and has appeared in Reactor, anthologies and has appeared in reactor,

uncanny beneath ceaseless skies, nightmare, and strange horizons, as well as other publications.

Also, fantastic human being. So, if you like what you hear here, please go back to one time a reluctant traveler, move

forward, disappear, transcend, and give the family my love.

So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Right before I decamped for Evergreen Dome, that mysterious place, I was sweating it out in my small metropolitan apartment that fall, watching the leaves dry up and drift away and my travel

books collect dust.

I was bored and between gigs, but for once financially stable, thanks to a

generous inheritance from a family friend, Edna. And I kept asking myself, why? Edna and I had met

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