You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is our first story for the month of August 2022 issue 191.

I hope that the summertime has been treating you kindly if it is summer where you are.

I hope you're staying cool and if it's any other temperature, I hope you're doing what

it takes to stay warm or maybe there's somewhere in the middle wrapping up in a blanket or sitting

by the pool with some ear buds and listening to these podcasts.

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Thank you if you're a subscriber and thank you if you've gone to patreon.com forward slash

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Just a dollar a month or more can help us so greatly and allows us to bring you these

stories.

The art, the podcast and on fiction.

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Neil and I could be doing this whole time.

So please consider.

So our first story is titled Tender Tether Shell is by MJ Pettit.

MJ Pettit is a full-time academic working at the intersection of history and psychology

as well as an occasional writer of short stories.

He devises time between Toronto, Canada and Manchester, UK with stopovers and other interesting

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