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Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It is our third story for our July 2019 issue, number 154.

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So our third story is titled,

Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart,

and is by Sam J Miller. Sam is a writer and a community organizer. His debut novel, The Art of Starving, from Harpertine, was one of NPR's best books of 2017 and won the Andre Norton Award.

His current novel Blackfish City is an entertainment weekly must read

and was called an action-packed science fiction thriller and

surprisingly heartwarming by the Washington Post.

He's a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and a winner of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop, and a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

He lives in New York City.

You can find more about Sam at his website Sam J Miller.com, and Sam is no stranger here at Clark's World, July 2015 brought you

when your child strays from God. June 2016, Things with Beards. June 2017, The Ways Out. In July 2018,

Last Gods. So this will make Sam's fifth appearance here in the magazine. So my

dear listeners I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Strange that I didn't see who she was when she stood in the street.

Arm up raised, headlights strobing her like flash bulbs, exactly as she'd appeared in the publicity

stills that papered New York City for one whole summer.

Only when she got in the cab and told me where she was going and slumped back in the seat, and I looked in the mirror and saw the look of utter exhaustion and emptiness fill her face. Only then did it click.

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