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Welcome to our third story for the month of August 2022, issue 191.

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Our third story is titled, Paul Atomash, and is by Finn Bar, Odaily.

Finn Bar, who can be found on Twitter at Finn Odaily, is an Irish speculative fiction writer

who likes to explore how broken technologies or unearthly events affect intimate locales.

Why would you want to write about alien battleships in vading New York when you can imagine

little green men asking for directions?

I'm a short tempered undertaker and caddic tool, County Kirk.

He has previously been published in Clarkshold and in the anthology is the best science fiction

of the year edited by Neil Clark, and the year's best science fiction edited by Gardner,

Dozwa.

Finn Bar has worked as a journalist for almost 20 years, most of those as a sub editor,

copy editor.

Like many Irish writers, Finn Bar lives in self-imposed exile.

He currently resides with his wife and two children in a small town in Lincolnshire,

UK.

Not far from the sound of goals in the smell of saltwater.

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