You are listening to a Clarksrolled magazine podcast. I'm your host and

narrator, Kate Baker. Greetings to Clarksville citizens. I hope that this podcast

is finding you well and all the hustle and bustle of December and all that

brings with it. Thank you for your ongoing support of the magazine, especially

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help support the magazine and bringing you these wonderful stories, our artwork,

our nonfiction pieces, and our podcasts. So our fourth story for the month of

December, issue 195 is titled Murder by Pixel Crime and Responsibility in the

Digital Darkness and is by SL Huang. SL Huang, okay, we found out the website

SL Huang.com is a Hugo winning an Amazon bestselling author who justifies an MIT

degree by writing surreal stories about machine learning and AI. Huang is the

author of the Cass Russell sci-fi thrillers from tour books as well as the

Burning Roses and the upcoming epic fantasy, the Water Outlaws. With shorter

work and analog, FNSF, Strange Horizons, Nature, and more, including numerous

best of anthologies. When not writing, Huang is also a Hollywood stunt

performer and firearms expert. So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story. From the first time I visited Mariah

Lee Cassidy in prison, she radiated defiance. The poisonous orange of her

prison jumpsuit might have been the decision of the state. But everything else

about the 29-year-old from her aggressively spiked hair to the rakish tilt of

her chin seemed calculated to scorn others. I was the first and only journalist.

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