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

Welcome to the second story for the month of May, 2025, issue 200 and 24.

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Our story is called the Library of the Apocalypse and is by Rati Meherotra. Rati Meherotra is an Indian-Canadian

SFF writer. She is the author of the Asiana duology, Marx Woman and Mahimata, and the

YAA fantasy novels Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, and Flower

and Thorn. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, nominated for the

Aurora Award, and appeared in multiple venues including the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

Lightspeed magazine, podcastal Apex Magazine, and Uncanny Magazine. So I hope you can sit back, my dear listener,

and let me tell you a story. Hunter's moon rises fat and golden over the burned out husk of the

CN Tower. Excitement ripples through us, making us forget, for the moment to the hunger that gnaws our insides.

The sign for the library appears only unclear, full moon nights, and it's been months since we last saw it.

Will tonight be the night we see it again?

Sheila thinks so, but she is the most optimistic among us.

Also, the sickest.

But we try not to think about that.

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