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The Oldest Fun by Natalia Theodoridou (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This episode features "The Oldest Fun" written by Natalia Theodoridou. Published in the April 2024 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/theodoridou_04_24 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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

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

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Welcome to our last story for the month of April 2024, issue 211.

0:17.0

We can't thank you enough for stopping by all these stories.

0:21.0

We can't thank you enough for all of the support that you've given us,

0:23.7

whether it's in the form of a subscription, telling a friend, going to Clark's World Citizens

0:29.8

com or Patreon.com forts forward slash Clark's World.

0:34.0

We simply cannot do this without you.

0:37.0

The last story is titled The Oldest Fun is by

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Natalia de Taurizu.

0:43.8

Natalia, Teterisu. Natalia has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, and magazines

0:49.7

such as Strange Horizons, Uncanny, beneath ceaseless Skies, Nightmare, and FNSF, among others.

0:57.1

He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and has been a finalist for the Nebula

1:01.8

Award in the Novelt and Game Writing categories.

1:04.9

Natalia holds a PhD in media in Cultural Studies from S.O.A.S.

1:09.8

University of London and is a Clarion West graduate. He was born in Greece with roots in Georgia, Russia, and Turkey.

1:17.0

And if you like a chair, please go back to Tousset at Twilight in a land of Reed's, the last eagle, one's burden, the reins on Mars, and the

1:29.2

nightingales in Lletres. So my dear listener hope you can sit back, relax and let me tell you a story. In the game, end, nobody can remember who first brought to the game to school, or how they came upon it, the black rectangular box with the small screen on which

1:56.2

the instructions appear.

1:58.8

Was it found in the woods behind the old monastery?

2:01.6

Did someone hand it to one of them on a given night on a street

2:04.6

corner and did the student who accepted it have to pay for it somehow? The story

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