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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. The good news is that Neil Clark, our beloved

editor-in-chief is now at home resting and repairing upon the posting of the July 14th webcast, which I think went up on the 20th or the

18th or the 19th or somewhereabouts in there all the time seems to run together. He was readmitted into the hospital for other

maladies and stayed almost a full week, but it does look like he's finally on the

mend and he's broken the cycle of not returning to the hospital on a proper Thursday.

So welcome home, Neil. It's great to have you back.

And thank you to the listeners who are always patient and kind.

Our third story for the month of July 2012 is by Sunny Moraine

and is entitled Iron Ladies Iron Tigers.

It's for issue number 70. July. Sunny is a humanoid creature of

average height, luminosity and inertial mass. They're also a PhD student

in sociology and a writer-like object who has published short stories

in Strange Horizons, Three Lobed, Burning Eye, and Shimmer, among other places.

Their first novel line in orbit, co-written with Lisa Soam is forthcoming from Sam Hayne publishing.

Their website can be found at W.W.

Sunnie.com and that's Sunn. can be found at W-W-W-D-M-O-R-A-I-N-Y-A-N-E.

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

Ping, Vita, wake up.

Spinning through the dark, I hear and feel Sarah's alert both at once, a sound that is

a vibration like a plucked string between my sealed eyes. I shift in the padded transit cocoon.

I move hands that barely feel like mine and I feel wires pulling the jacks on my skin at the same instant.

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