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

Greetings Clarkville Citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our sixth story for the month of January 2024,

issue 2008. How have you enjoyed all of our new stories for the new year?

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So our story is titled Rail Meat and is by Marie Vibbert. Hugo and Nebula nominated author Marie Vibbert's short fiction has appeared in top magazines like Nature, Analog, and

Clark's World and has been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her

debut novel Galactic Hellcats was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called

Everything Science Fiction Should Be by the Oxford Culture Review.

She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games.

By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.

And if you like what you are here, you can go back to Cheap or to replace.

And we built this city.

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