You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Welcome to the fourth story for the month of May 2024, issue 212. I do hope you've been

enjoying these stories thus far and as always thank you so much for your ongoing support

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Our title is The Brotherhood of Montague Street video and is by Thomas Ha.

Thomas Ha is a Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award nominated writer of speculative short fiction in addition to Clark's

Royal that you can find his work in Lightspeed magazine beneath ceaseless

skies and weird horror magazine, among other publications.

His work has also appeared in the year's best Dark Fantasy and Horror Series edited by

Paula Garan. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and after a decade plus of living in the Northeast he now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to the Mubb, Window Boy, and Sweet Baby.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. At first I thought something had broken in my book. I didn't notice until the afternoon light from the windows began to receive.

I tried to increase the brightness setting of the page, but no matter how I thumbed the

margins they would not change. For the first time I looked carefully at the gold

printing along its spine.

A book was dead.

What kind of library carried a dead book? I wondered.

No one responded to my calls for assistance.

There were no working service buttons near the shelves that I could see. No one responded to my calls for assistance.

There were no working service buttons near the shelves that I could see.

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