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

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Welcome to the fifth story for the month of September 2022, issue 192.

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Our story is titled live update and is by Ledy Prall.

Ledy Prall, who can be found at the website, Ledyprall.com, likes to write about the edge

where humans and their technology are increasingly merging.

Her short fiction has appeared and wired, tour.com, Clarkshold, analog, apex, and Martian magazine,

and reprinted in a number of anthologies, including the best American science fiction, fantasy,

and the new voices of science fiction.

Her work has also been translated into several languages.

She is a lifelong midwesterner and currently lives in Des Moines.

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