You are listening to The Forst Story for the Clarksworld magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Welcome to Sion by Thomas Haw. This story, like all of our stories, are brought to you by your support.

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and worlds without your ongoing support thank you for joining us for a little escapeism

and i do hope that you're doing as well as can be, all things considered.

Now our author, Thomas Haugh, is a nebula, Ignite, Hugo, Locus, and Shirley Jackson

Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction.

You can find his work in Clark's World, Lightspeed Magazine, beneath ceaseless 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, 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.

And if you'd like what you're here, you can go back to, in my country, the sort, the

brotherhood of Montague Street Video, and the Mubb.

So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Unknown compartment.

There was no door where there should be a door, no hall, where there should be a hall.

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