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Greetings Clarksville citizens and welcome to our fourth story for the month of April, issue 211.

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Our story is titled The Arborist and is by Derek Bowden. Derek Bowden's fiction has appeared in Clark's World, Light Speed, Analog, and elsewhere.

He is a Sturgeon Award nominated writer and a software developer, an adventurer and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019.

Derek currently calls Boston his home,

although he's lived in 14 cities spanning four continents.

He is owned by two cats and one iron-willed daughter.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to migratory patterns of the modern American skyscraper.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Through the

the cracked moldering ribs of the alien planet sprouted a life reborn,

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