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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Our next story for issue 173 February 2021 is titled Remember the Washington, they said,

they fed the Eugoxley, and is by Jeff Reynolds.

Jeff Reynolds is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Maryland, whose work has appeared in

escape pod daily science fiction, Operation Literary Magazine, and Andromeda Spaceways magazine.

He's attended Bible Paradise Writer's Workshop and Stone Coast Writer's Conference,

and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in simulation and digital entertainment from the University

of Baltimore. Jeff works for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab,

Home of New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe, and the upcoming Dragonfly mission to Titan.

He's only a software licensing analyst though, and doesn't do any of the really cool stuff

like building space probes and meeting Brian Mays. You can find more about Jeff at trollbreath.com.

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like this one from Jeff. You can consider going to patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld

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

They took the baby, swaddled in a blanket made of soft blue cotton,

down the dirt track through vine covered trees, deep into the swamp.

Their boots splashed through puddles as they walked, an insect sent piercing squeals through the woods.

The baby slept soundly until the end. Not even murmured conversation about the terrible things

that had been done that evening woke it. Two moons rode over their shoulders as they picked their

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