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

Greetings, Clarksrolled citizens. I hope this podcast finds you. Well, this is our fourth

story for the month of August, issue 191. I hope that August is treating you well thus far.

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Our story is titled poly and not Charles conquer the solar system and is by CarriVon.

CarriVon, who can be found out to the website CarriVon.com, has work that includes the

Philip K. Dick award-winning novel Bannerless. The New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville

Urban Fantasy series, over 20 novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been

finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent novel, Questland, is about a high-tech

larp that goes horribly wrong and the literature professor who has to help save the day. She's

a contributor to the Wildcard series of shared world superhero books edited by George

R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. In Air Force Brat, she survived

her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. If you like what

you hear, I invite you to go back to her story Astrophilia.

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

This is chapter 30 or so in a whole ongoing saga that I don't have time to get into right

now. I'm jumping in at the point when my Machiavellian twin brother Charles decided to take

over Mars and I decided to help. My big failing is I never figure these things out until I'm

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