You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks for Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our last story for the year for this trash fire of 2020.

As we usher in 2021,

I want to thank you for your support through this pandemic.

Through the first podcast you listen to, to this one,

or if this is your first podcast, welcome, award.

I want to thank you for your support throughout the year.

Whether it was spreading the word of Clarks rolled through Twitter,, Facebook, telling a friend.

Or if you had the means to do so, going to Patreon.com

forward slash Clark's World to check a few bucks our way.

We can't do this without you. We don't want to do this without you.

We want to say thank you. So our last story for the month of December, and for the year of 2020, is titled

Songs of Activation and is by Andy Dudak.

Andy Dudak is a writer and translator of science fiction, his original stories have appeared in

analog, Apex, Clark's World, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, The magazine of Fantasy

and Science Fiction, Rich Horton's years years best and elsewhere. He's translated 12 stories for Clark's world.

And a novel by Lou Schishin, among other things. In his spare time he likes to binge watch peak television and eat kui Muslim style cold sesame noodles. You can find Andy at Andy Dudak

at tumbler. com.

May 2013 brought you tacky psyche

June 2015 brought you asymptotic.

June 2017 brought you fool's cap

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