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Welcome to story number three, March 2022 issue 186.

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So our story is titled Rain of Days and is by Ray Naylor.

Ray Naylor, who can be found at the website RayNaylor.net, has lived and worked in Russia,

Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans for nearly two decades.

He is a foreign service officer and previously worked in international education development,

as well as serving in the Peace Corps in Ashkabat, Turkmenistan.

Ray began publishing the speculative fiction in 2015 in the pages of Asimov's with the

short story Mutability, since then his critically acclaimed stories have been seen in print

in Clarksworld, analog, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, light speed and nightmare,

as well as in several best of the year anthologies.

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