You are listening to the fifth story for the Clarks World magazine podcast for March,

2026. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker. This one is a little bit different. This is an

afterward. I think this might be one of the first afterwards we've ever done here at the magazine.

And it follows the story by Thomas Haugh, Sion. This piece is titled Sion afterward and is by Thomas

Haw. And this is brought to you by your support. So if you've gone to patreon.com for slash

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Let's us bring you these kind of things.

And just before we begin, going back to Thomas Haugh, Thomas Haugh is a Nebula Ignite, Hugo, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated-Raector of Speculative Fiction Stories.

You can find his work here in Clarksworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneaths Leaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications.

His work has also appeared in the best American science fiction and fantasy and the year's best dark fantasy and horror.

His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories,

is available at undertow publications and wherever books are sold. Thomas grew up in Honolulu,

and after a decade plus of living in the Northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family.

Now along with this particular afterward, which is on the shorter side, there are some illustrations.

So I implore you to go back to the Clarkshould Magazine.com website and check them out.

And I shall do my best in reading you this afterward.

So sit back, relax, and let me tell you. Another story. I have done my best to transcribe

the account found in the recently excavated cenotaph, but as you're aware, these experiential

simulations don't easily lend themselves to direct reproduction. Nonetheless, I've done what I can, and I'm transmitting this for further study by the department.

I hope you can make some use of this information.

A number of us have gone back and forth over the cenotaph and disagree as to its significance.

Dr. Peek and others, including Dr. Wolf and Dr. Koji, think this Sina-Taf account is nothing more than a work of

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