You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to a third story for the month of June, 26, issue 237. I hope that this story, like all of our stories, find you extraordinarily, well, as well as can be all things considered. I'd like to thank you for spending the time here at the magazine, either through reading a story, listening to the podcast, appreciating the art and the nonfiction, or telling a friend.

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Our story is titled The Floating Republic, and is by Rebecca Campbell.

Rebecca Campbell is the Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction.

Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies.

She won the Sunburst Award for Short Fiction in 2020,

for the fourth trimester is the strangest. Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

in 2021 for an important failure. And in 2023, she won the Ursula Legwin Prize for her Steliform

press novella, Arbor Reality. New West Press published her first novel, The Paradise

Engine in 2013, and undertow publications published her novella the talasite in 2022 her most recent publication

is the other shore stories stella form press 2025 which collects the short story she's written

about the pacific northwest she mostly uses her phdd in canadian literature to make up sad stories

about the future carrie also has stories in clark World, the language birds speak, and important failure,

such thoughts are unproductive.

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