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

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

This is our fifth story for the month of February, issue 185, 2022.

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Now our story is titled The Old Moon and is by John McNeil.

John McNeil, who could be found at the website, JohnMcNeil.me, writes science fiction

on authority and rebellion, plans and animals in curious positions, and the search for one's

place in the multiverse.

His work has appeared previously in Abtera flash fiction and 365 tomorrow's.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Viber and couldn't believe I liked the cold.

I mean the deep cold I said, at the bottom of a crater on the Old Moon, in a permanent

shadow, but that must have been, that must have been shuttered vibrant.

If it never got starlight, never, I poured water onto vibrant, and there was no atmosphere

to scatter diffuse light.

They were dark, completely dark, shadows on the Old Moon.

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