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Our first story is titled The Painter of Trees and is by Suzanne Palmer.

In 2015 by Suzanne Palmer.

In 2015, Suzanne Palmer attended the Viable Paradise Writers Workshop

and came away from it both unreasonably encouraged

and with a rather surprising realization that writing had become an indelible part of her life.

She has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the UGM Foster Award.

She won the Reader's Polls for the Best Stories from Asimov's Analog

and Interzone. Her first novel will be out from Daw Books this year.

Suzanne lives in Western Massachusetts with a number of two and four-legged creatures, including

one very large fluffy dog, and is a Linux and Database System Administrator for the

Sciences at Smith College.

You can find more about Suzanne,

ZANZ-J-A-N-N-T.

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

I go down to the gate, swipe my security pass and step through the 10 meter tall still

opening doors into the last of the wildlands.

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