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

Greetings Clarks Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. I think in the beginning of

other podcasts I've lamented that we haven't had that much winter weather aside from that massive snowstorm in October.

Well as the March 1st date approached we ended up getting a little bit of snow and ice so I don't think Mistress Winter is quite done with us yet.

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So our first piece of fiction for the month of March is entitled Sunlight Society by an author named Margaret Ronald.

Margaret is the author of Spiral Hunt, Wild Hunt, and Soul Hunt, as well as a number of short stories.

Originally from Indiana, she now lives outside Boston.

So sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald, issue number 66, March.

When the Fourth Street BioLab went up, I didn't think of Casey right away.

I was working in the far side of the complex which meant I was one of about 400 people who got to see the entire dome,

rise up off of its foundations, rotate counterclockwise 90 degrees, and

shoot up into the sky.

My immediate reaction followed the same pattern as everyone else. First, what the hell?

Then, just before a needle of light vaporized the bio lab,

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