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

Greetings Clarksworld citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our last story for the month of August, issue 191, year 2022.

How have you enjoyed these stories that we brought you this month?

Are you looking forward to September?

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with us. So, our last story is titled, Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper in

is by Derek Bowden. Derek Bowden, who can be found at the website, Derek Bowden.com,

has fiction appearing and is forthcoming in light speed, analog, escape pod, and elsewhere.

He is a writer, a software developer, an adventurer, and a graduate of the Clarion West class of

2019. He currently calls Boston his home, although he's lived in 14 cities spanning four continents.

He is owned by two cats and one iron-willed daughter.

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

They call it the pinnacle of architectural innovation and affordable housing revolution.

They call it plexus and it built this neighborhood in seven days.

It starts as a colloid, a nanoparticle superfluid, a pale blue sludge that erupts from the

nozzles of a hundred carbon fiber tubes on a cold Wednesday morning and late February.

It tumbles over itself in apparent disarray, though there's nothing about the plexus that isn't

premeditated down to the molecular level. By nightfall, the foundation is built by morning

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