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

Greetings Clarks's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. I'm just going to jump right into the story and the piece is titled The Algebra of Events and is by Elizabeth Bourne.

Elizabeth has previously published short fiction and fantasy and science fiction,

Inner Zone, and Clark's World.

She is currently working on a second world fantasy novel

in a mystery set in prohibition age, San Francisco.

Born grew up in Lovecraft Country and assures you that his work wasn't fiction.

She lives in the Pacific Northwest and is advised on her writing by her dog, Kai, who eats the bad pages.

You can find Elizabeth at her website Elizabethborn.net.

And that last name is spelled B-O-U-R-N-E. So I invite you to sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.

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The alarms vibrated when I was in the comfort room sharing essence with M. Shamir.

We immediately untethered so I could couple into my duty station. The unthinkable had occurred.

In the myriad calculations of probable choices guiding us to the colony, Whole, three, green.

The Sim encounter the chance of failure and slotted it. Everyone knows that failure

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