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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very warm and very well and I do

apologize for the delay in this podcast. I have been severely under the

weather and I have just gotten my voice back. So thank you for bearing

with the time crunch once again. There's not much news to report so I'm just going to jump right into the story.

I think this is one a lot of people have been waiting for.

The piece is titled Postcards from Monster Island and is by Emily Devanport.

Emily has been published in the US, the UK, Italy, and Israel under Under three pen names, her novels are Shade, Larissa,

Scorpion, Eggheads, The Kronos Condition, Godheads, Broken Time, which was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award,

Belrous and enemies.

Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's,

Full Spectrum and Aboriginal SF, whose readers honored her with a Boomerang

and actual Boomerang, and attractively inscribed. Look for her new novels,

The Night Shifters, spirits of glory, and pale lady on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and

Smashwords. She's married to artist writer Ernest Hogan and they live in Arizona. She's currently studying geology in hopes that one day

she'll be able to volunteer full-time in our local national and state parks as a

resident Geo Geek. You can find Emily at her website EMS J-O-I-E-D-E-W-E-W-E-Weared.com. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Sometimes people ask me, why didn't you run?

Sometimes people ask me, why didn't you run? Because I had the Martian death flu, I tell them.

They look at me funny because they've seen the footage of people clogging the roads and the

subways and trains desperate to get out of town the day he waited ashore.

I wasn't in that crowd. I was flat on my back in my studio apartment blitzed out of my mind with medicine.

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