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So our story is The Face of God and is by Bo Balder. Bo Balder.

Bo Balder is the first Dutch author to have been published in Clark's World and

FNSF.

Her short fiction has also appeared in a skate pod in other places. Her SF novel The Wen was recently published by Pink Narcissus Press. You can find Bo at her website, B-O-U-K-J-E-B-B-O-T-T-T-E-T-T-T-E. Bo you

and Bo has also got some stories in Clark's world that I want to just let you know about in

case you like what you here.

November 2016 brought you follow the white line.

July 2017 brought you the bridge groom.

January 2018 brought you a cigarette burn in your memory and in May 2018 brought you a vastness.

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

I was the first, not the first to touch the God, but to notice the effects of the God flesh.

Mother and I had walked up to where the God's hand had landed, crushing houses and flattening trees.

The left hand had buried itself partially in the ground,

palm down, so even though the pinky finger was just five times

as thick as a normal house, the pad of the

fingertip was just within reach. I was ten years old or so, but I was so thin and

wasted my mother could still hold me up. I reached for the edge of the

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