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

Greetings Clarkville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

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Our fourth story for the month of July 2017, issue 130, is titled The Bridge Groom, and is by Bo Balder.

Bo Balder lives in works near Amsterdam. Bo-Balder.

Bo-Balder lives in works near Amsterdam.

She is the first Dutch author to have been published in FNSF and Clark's World.

Her short fiction has also appeared in Nature Futures, Escape Pod, and more.

Her SF novel, The One, by Pink Narcissus Press was published in 2016.

When she isn't writing, you can find her madly designing knitware, painting, and reading a lot. You can find her at a website

B-O-U-K-J-E-B-A-L-D-E-L-D-E-R-N-N-L.

And we've published Bo before.

November 2016 brought you follow the white line.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. The man who comes down the mountain causes the end of Alois life.

It seems an ordinary sunny spring day, people venturing out and about again after a long cold winter.

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