You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings to Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to July 1st, issue 178.

I hope the summer is treating you kindly, if you're actually experiencing summer in your

part of the world.

If not, whatever weather finds you, I hope that you are sitting back, relaxing, or maybe

getting some stuff done as you listen to me narrate yet another Clark's World story.

I want to thank you for your support by coming here and listening to all of these narrations,

whether this is your first, your over 550th, or somewhere in the middle, thank you.

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So our first story is titled Promises We Made Under A Brick Dark Sky, and is by Karen Osborne.

Karen Osborne is a speculative fiction writer and visual storyteller living in Baltimore.

She is the author of Architects of Memory and Endions of Oblivion from Tor Books, and

her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus Awards.

A graduate of Viable Paradise and the Claire and Writers Workshop, her short fiction appears

an uncanny fireside, escape pod beneath ceaseless skies, and more.

You can find more about Karen at her website, Karen Osborne.com.

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

I was standing on the dock when the angels fell.

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