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

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

It's April 1st.

It's a brand new month,

chock full of original and reprint fiction,

some new art,

and as always this podcast.

Thank you if you've been a long time and a short time listener.

And thank you if you've given us a little bit of your support via buying a subscription.

Or visiting patreon.com forward slash Clark's world. I believe

the last time I checked we are super close to meeting one of our goals and we

can't do that without your help so please consider

doing so. So our first story is titled The Last Eagle and is by Natalia

Tatarithu.

Now, Natalia is a UK-based media and cultural studies scholar,

and a writer of Strange Stories, winner of the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction,

Natalia is also a finalist for the 2018 Nebula Award for Game Writing.

Natalia is a fiction editor at SubQ Interactive Fiction magazine,

Dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers, Clerian West Graduate, Class of 2018,

and World Factory Apprentice 2018.

You can find more about Natalia at Natalia Dash T-H-E-O-D-O-R-I-D-O-U-D-O-G-O-G-K-G-O-K-K-K-K-O-K-K-O-K-K-O-G-O-G-O-G-G-G Now my dear listeners I do hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

For a city boy, you are terrible in crowds. Beatrice used to say, and she wasn't wrong exactly, but it was never the crowds that were the problem.

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