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We're on to our fourth story for the month of April 2016 for issue number 115.

Today's piece is The Cedar Grid and is by Sarah Saab.

Sarah was born in Beirut, Lebanon, not far from Pigeon Rock.

She now lives in North London where she works on transport systems for the future.

In her spare time she boxes, runs, and hunts for the perfect almond croissant.

Sarah is a 2015 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop at UCSD.

And you can find her on Twitter as at Fort Knight LeSara.

That's F-O-R-T-N-I-G-H-T-L-Y-S-A-A.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to November 2015 for in the queue for the World Ship Munawar.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Yassim is giving chase and he is giving chase and he shouldn't be.

Beneath the flapping robes of Yassam's running target, a deadly corset bristling with titanium circuitry flashes into view.

He catches an unmistakable mineral scent with its nose of vanilla sponge coming off the attacker.

Not a human odor, nowhere near the vinegar of his condemned man's sweat.

Sprinting footfalls jutter in his knees.

His panic brain has yet to quell this bodily compulsion to pursue,

to defend.

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