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Clarkesworld Magazine

Seeing by Genevieve Valentine (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2010

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our second piece of audio fiction for November is "Seeing" written by Genevieve Valentine and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I do hope this mid-month podcast finds you well.

0:15.0

As per usual with this podcast on the 15th of each month, there's no real news to report,

0:21.0

because I've done it all in the first podcast of the month. So I'm just

0:25.2

going to jump into the story by Genevieve Valentine. Genevieve's World

0:29.6

Fantasy Award nominated short fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Running with the

0:35.3

Pack, The Living Dead to The Way of the Wizard. Teeth, Clark's World magazine, Strange Horizons, and more.

0:43.7

Her first novel, Meccanique, is forthcoming from Prime Books in 2011.

0:49.6

Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog. And speaking of

0:57.0

her blog, you should really follow her as she rips apart everything from bad movies to horrible costumes in the Miss World

1:07.5

pageant. You could find her at g.l. Valentine. Live Journal.com.

1:16.2

So it is my absolute pleasure to tell you a story

1:21.4

entitled Seeing

1:22.6

Seeing by Genevieve Valentine.

1:26.2

Issue number 50 November 2010. and 10.

1:39.0

After it was over, they pulled her from the sea. Even as they lifted her into the rescue boat, she was saying,

1:44.0

No, no, we could have made it.

1:48.0

She was cradling the hand the captain broke.

1:52.0

The first time Marika saw And the captain broke.

1:58.0

The first time Marika saw the night sky, she was terrified. Strange, she wasn't terrified sooner.

2:00.0

They'd escape the city because of the water riots. The city wouldn't last long. The night swallowed it up one time too many and then day just never came.

2:11.0

Maybe that's what happened to her, one terror swallowing another. The night sky was a battle of

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