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

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

It's about mid-January, and this is our third story for the month.

Issue number 124.

Again, I'm going to keep badgering you about those resolutions.

Hopefully you haven't given them up too. to keep badgering you about those resolutions.

Hopefully you haven't given them up too quickly.

I hope you're finding success and whatever you decided to try this year.

And again, if you are supporting the magazine, you are awesome.

And if you're listening to the magazine, you're also awesome.

If you could throw some money away, that'd be even awesomeer!

I didn't actually think that was a word, but that's okay.

Anyway, our third story for the month is titled Justice Systems and Quantum Parallel

Proppabilities, and it's by Luddy Pre-P. is titled Justice Systems and Quantum Parallel Properties.

And it's by Lettie Prell.

LettiePrell's short fiction has appeared in Tour.com,

Apex Magazine, Analog, and elsewhere.

Her fiction often explores the edge where humans and their technology

are increasingly merging. Her writing also occasionally touches on justice issues, arising

from her research work on that field. She lives in Des Moines. You can find

Lettie at her website, LettiePrel.com. So without further ado, I want you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Cole sits on the hard slab of a bed that cannot be tamed by the 3 inch thick mattress and scratchy blanket. The gray of the diffused

light brings no warmth to the cell. There is nothing for coal to do but wait, which he's been doing for some time.

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