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

Greetings as Clarksville citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It is our third story for the month of October 2017. Once again

thank you if you are a continuing patron, a subscriber via Amazon or Waitless books or have bought the chat books or yearly

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Donate often. Our third story for issue 133 is titled The Last Boat Builder

and Bally Valoon and is by author Finbar O'Reilly.

Finbar O'Reilly is an Irish speculative fiction writer who likes to explore how broken

technologies or unearthly events affect intimate locales.

Why would you want to write about alien battleships invading New York when you can imagine

little green men asking for directions from a short-tempered undertaker,

and Kerrig Tohil, Kolkork. Finbar has worked as a journalist for almost 20 years, most of those as a sub-editor, copy editor, in newspapers

such as The Irish Times, Irish Examiner, and Daily Telegraph. He currently works as a production editor of a magazine

for car dealers. He believes it is testament to his powers of imagination that he has

never purchased an automobile and doesn't drive.

Like many Irish writers, VINBAR lives in self-imposed exile.

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