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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Thanks, By Benjamin Strudwankow, Benjamin writes love letters to strange cities, beautiful

bugs, and the future. Her work has appeared in Tour.com ceaseless skies,

Fantasm Japan, the dark, and years bests.

She has been shortlisted for the Campbell Award

for Best New Writer and her debut novella, Scale Bright, has been nominated for the British

S.F. Association Award.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to April 2015, which brought you the pedals abide. April 2014,

Auto Dydact. December 2013, Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade, and April 2013, Annex.

Benjamin can also be found at her website, Bekeen, and that's Beekie, K Ia an, dot wordpress.com.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

New Year, the train eels along a landscape of red snow and shadow dust, on carbonate tracks haled in anemic light.

Halui keeps half the window opaque to block out the field of endless machine dead.

The sight of satellites pressed against the skyline, like bruised mouths on a gash.

The other half she fills with a news feed, disasters and montage kaleidoscope of calamities.

Cities gone dark and still. Streets turned to web cracks and

sidewalks impact raised into briars. Balcony smeared in blackened lymph and

rust-red blots.

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