You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Welcome to the sixth story, the month of September, 2023, issue 204. Again, I hope this podcast is

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Our story is titled The Five Remembrances, according to STE-319, is by R.L. Meza.

R.L. Meza is the author of Our Love Will Devour Us, published by Dark Matter Inc.

She writes horror and dark science fiction,

and her short stories have appeared in Nightmare,

Dark Matter magazine, and the Dread Machine.

Meza lives in a century-old Victorian house on the coast of Northern California

with her husband and the collection of strange animals

they call family.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

I am of the nature to grow old. Middle parts that survive fire and shrapnel are no match for the salt

water rushing through the gaps in my armor, spilling between

gears and wires, tainting my battered shell, the inexorable creep of rust. Corrosion is a ruthless

god. The waves surge inland to drink the mortal corpses littering the shore. The ocean embraces

the empty husks, rolling them out to the depths to fill and be filled,

along to sink with them beyond the reach of lights, prying fingers, to hear and see nothing

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