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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to the last story for the month of May.

2023 issue 200. We hope you've enjoyed all of these stories that we've brought to you

this month and every prior month. We want to thank you again for your support,

whether it's your first story here at Clarksville or over 800 at this point,

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just a dollar a month or more can really help us out. Our last story for the month is titled

the Fall is by Jordan Chase Young. Now, Oregon's gray skies stamped Jordan Chase Young into a

science fiction writer. Now, he lives in Australia with his wife Katie and their psycho cat Hilda.

When he's not working or puzzling over the fate of his starboard species through pose,

he's drawing strange creatures or strolling through Melbourne's sunny streets for inspiration.

His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in escape pod, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

the zombies need brains, anthology when worlds collide and many other venues. He occasionally

blogs about the future at ebook of the new sun. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

Blue earth shine and bare sunlight soaked the forest of the moon. The trees stood in silence,

white as bone. They, like the animals that dwelt here, have been shaped long ago to survive without

atmosphere. The forest was strange and beautiful, but shul fear losing her way in it. Her suit held air

for five more hours, enough for her task with some leftover. She didn't walk so much as bound,

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