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

Greetings, Clarksrolled citizens. Welcome to Story 2 for August 2022 issue 191.

I hope that you're well. Hope that August has been treating you kindly thus far.

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Speaking of one, the second story is titled The Pirates Considiere and is by Bo Balder.

Bo Balder, who can be found at the website book jbalder.nl. That is B-O-U-K-J-E-B-A-L-D-E-R.

Lives and works close to Amsterdam. Bo is the first Dutch author to be published in FNSF, Clarksrolled

in a log and other places. Her SF novel The One was published by Pink Narcissus Press

when not writing she knits, reads and gardens, preferably all three at the same time.

Bo was no stranger here to Clarksrolled, so if you like which here you can go back to Hatchling.

The answer was snails. The force exerted on the mass of a body. Quantum fish in Erinve.

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

Sometimes piracy is easy. The generation ship invited us aboard in the first sentence of their

message. No threats needed. The ship was gigantic, at least two centuries old. That and the utter

naivete told me a lot. What does that mean, Consigliere, Katla? I know, the captain growled.

Trap. He was standing dead center on the ceiling, with Helgi, dead center on the floor facing him

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