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

Greetings, Clerksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. Welcome to the fifth story for

issue number 228, September 2025. Our piece is titled The Fury of the Glowman is by David

McGilvery. This piece, as with all of our pieces, our art, our nonfiction, this podcast, everything that

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Now our author, David McGilvery, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but now lives with his family in London.

He writes, walks, and goes to see unpopular bands.

As well as Clark's World, his stories have appeared in analog, interzone digital, shoreline of infinity, and others.

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the deformed saint and the poison wind so my dear listener i hope that you can sit back relax

and let me tell you a story before bina bachar spent in Before.

Bina Bacar spent an introspective seven minutes alone in an elevator, falling deep beneath Kuala Lumpur.

When the doors finally opened, it was on to a white corridor exactly like the one she had left, except for the greeting party that awaited her.

General Faye bin Osman, her head of national security, technological branch, stood before two

uniform guards and a driverless electric golf cart.

Good morning, General. All is ready? Bean asked. Good morning, Prime Minister. All is ready?' Bina asked.

"'Good morning, Prime Minister. All is ready. He indicated the cart's front seat and climbed into the one next to it.

"'You've taken precautions since I last saw you, I see.' She lifted a manicured hand and almost touched the criss-cross of red lines at his temple.

"'I've heard it's painful to have it taken out.

The general grimaced.

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