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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.

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into our third story for the month of October 2015.

The piece is titled The Father and is by Kola Hayward Rotimi.

Since in early age, Kola has loved to put the words and people from his imagination

straight into the word processor.

He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina, and attends the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Kola is working on expanding and developing his fictional setting along with completing

the first draft of his novel. he also enjoys the post-human

descendants struggle like the rest of us. This is his first published story.

So without further ado, I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Madav Tamboli almost missed the vein.

It was hard to inject the antidote well surrounded by his praying colleagues. He tried to blend with the others

rocking with the noise of the priest at the altar. Madhav punctured his skin and

gasped. The chemicals crawled from the needle through his blood vessels.

It was a feeling like ice crystallizing just beneath the surface, he said his jaw and

refused to shudder.

After he made sure there were no prying eyes, Madhove stashed the narrow syringe into an

inside pocket.

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