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

greetings to Clarkswold citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well. Welcome to

October 1st, issue 193. I hope that you're doing well. I hope that you've enjoyed all of

our stories. No matter if this is your first or your over 750th. Thank you for your support

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the nonfiction, the art, and this very podcast.

Our first story is titled John Cowns, is by Lavi Tiddar. Lavi Tiddar is the author of Osama,

the violent century, a manly streaming central station, unholy land by force alone,

the hood, and the escapement. His latest novels are Merer and Miyam. His awards included the

World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, John W. Campbell Award, the Newcombe Prize,

and the Gerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. And he's been shortlisted for the Clark Award,

and the Philip K. Dick Award. Lavi can be found at LaviTiddar.wordpress.com.

And he also has the following works available at Clarkswold.

Rain following in the pines, October 2021, blue and blue and blue and pink,

September 2020, Venus and Bloom, January 2019,

gubernale, July 2018, the Oracle, July 2017, the bookseller, March 2015.

If you go to Lavi's profile on our website,

you can find all of his stories that he's done here at Clarkswold.

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

The wall of her beige, and you can see where the rust took hold,

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