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

Greetings, Clarkville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. This story, along with all of our

other stories, both in the past and those yet to come, along with our nonfiction, our art, our podcast,

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Those all count to. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.

You let me continue to do something I love to do. Our story is titled The Job Interview. It is by

Carrie Vaughn. Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick award-winning novel Bannerless,

the New York Times best-selling

Kitty Norville Urban Fantasy Series, over 20 novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which

have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her latest novel, The Naturalist Society, is about

19th century ornithologists, awkward love triangles, and the magic of binomial

nomenclature. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down

roots in Boulder, Colorado. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to four stories

Carrie's pad with us here in Clark's World. Amalia, vast and trunkless legs of stone,

Polly and not Charles conquer the solar system,

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