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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

We have yet another story for you for the month of January 2024, issue 2008.

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Our story is titled Just Another Cat in a Box.

It is by Ian Aslender.

Ian Aslender has written a few stories, some of them are considered pretty decent for being written by a Marmoset.

That's not to say Ian El Slander is a Marmoset afraid of admitting he's a Marmoset and being shunned by both humans and the Marmoset community, but he isn't saying that either.

His stories aren't about Marmosets, mostly.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back. Relax.

Let me tell you a story.

The call emerged from the deep of the system's register. Electrical current flowed through the system, returning to the point of the last dimensional fold a nanosecond before the previous activation. A light burned dimly past its expiry in the darkened

lab, illuminating shadows on the sole occupant being pulled from his temporal fold and into the present reality within the confines of the matter

synthesizer.

Its creator called it a metal coffin for resurrection, but what did he know? He was dead. The system's

register completed the task. Steam poured from the matter synthesizers hatch

when it opened. The man inside naked as the moment he had been, pushed

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