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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our last story for the month of July, 2020, issue 166.

I hope you're holding up.

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Our last piece is titled The House that Left Into Forever, and is by Beth Goder.

Beth Goder works as an archivist, processing the papers of economists, scientists, and

other interesting folks.

Her fiction has appeared in venues such as a skate pod,

fireside, and Flash Fiction online.

You can find Beth at her website Beth Goter.com. So my dear listeners I hope you can sit back, relax and let me tell

you a story.

The house loved all six of his rooms.

Each day he would send the cleansing bots to sweep and buff and shine.

First, to the fiasco room with its glossy switches.

In the room of peonies, the bots moved carefully placing a calculated amount of water into the dark soil.

The calcium cupboard was small and only needed dusting, while the room of bicycles had intricate equipment that had to be taken apart,

oiled, and reassembled. The paper in the watermark chamber was fragile so the bots floated through on feather light springs.

The last room, which doom has come inhabited, was left alone.

After the cleaning routine, the house would speak to Doom has come.

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