You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your hosted narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. It's September 1st 2012 and our issue is number 72.

I am enjoying the WorldCon in Chicago so if it happened to be in Chicago this particular weekend stop by and say

hello I'll be at many events and for that reason I'm going to keep the

introduction very very short and get into the first story of the month.

The piece is entitled The Found Girl by David Kletcha and Tobias S. Bekyll.

David is a writer and marine combat veteran currently living in West Michigan with his family

and assorted computer junk.

He works in IT to pay the bills like so many other beginning writers and artists.

He has sold stories to Subtradianian. Clark's World and has been in the armored anthology published by Bain Books.

You can find David at W.W. K-L-E-C-H-N-N-T. And we're no stranger to Tobias S Bacall here at Clark's World.

Tobias is a Caribbean-born writer and New York Times bestseller who grew up in Granada,

the British Virgin Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.

His latest novel is Arctic Rising.

His website is Tobias Bekel.

It's T-O-B-C-K-E-L-L-L-A-S-B-K-E-L-L- dot com. Now, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

Melissa stalked a trash compactor in the elemental caverns deep in the depths below the street, where steam hissed from newly regrown pipes and oversized dendrites spread across the ancient brick of the connective tunnels.

The glowing moss that dripped brown water filled the air with a faint glow, enough to let Melissa squint her way through the caverns.

The street gave her the mission, the usual way.

Pictographs glowing on the side of the steps leading up to the two-storied red brick building the found children call the castle

She had puzzled for a moment as to what the trash can plus clamp had meant, but eventually she figured that the street

lost a compactor and needed it retrieved.

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