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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens, and welcome to the seventh story for the month of June 2025,

issue 225. I hope that all of these stories for this month have found you as well as possibly can be.

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Our story is titled The Last to Survive.

It is by Rita Chang Eppig.

Rita Chang Epig's novel, Deep As the Sky, Red as a Sea,

was a Barnes & Noble, Discover, Indy Next and Good Morning America BuzzPick.

Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short

Story is 2021, Clark's World, and elsewhere. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to

The Last to Die. So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story the evening the glass woman returned to the island

all residents received a notification after all what is the first person to survive the

cyberization procedure that created the neo sapians and conferred upon them eternal life,

if not a celebrity.

62% of residents sent out their personal drones to catch a glimpse of her, filling the sky with a

gentle whir that the older neo sapiens likened to the mating song of cicadas, and that the

younger likened to the first sound that cicadas, and that the younger likened to the

first sound that they ever heard, the machine wounds that held and kept them until they were

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