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

Welcome to the seventh story for the month of February, issue 2009.

I hope that this podcast is finding you extraordinarily well. What have your thoughts been over the last few stories?

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Our story is titled The Beam, I Dolein, and is by Ryan Marie Ketterra.

Ryan Marie Ketterra is from Malden, Massachusetts.

Her work can be found in Dark Matter magazine and CHM,

as well as several anthologies.

She's a fan of The Weird and Uncanny and her writing draws most of its influence from the works of Shirley Jackson and Thomas Legotti.

When she isn't writing stories, Ryan is writing code for a software startup in Boston, Massachusetts or

training for another road race. So my dear listener I hope you can sit back

relax and let me tell you a story.

The wind blows through me,

around me, and I creep, under over and around the trees, the leaves, the dirt.

Today the star shines and I absorb it into my nutrient-rich ocean, those decadent rays using

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