You are listening to a Clark's Role magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's Role Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. Welcome to the first

story for the month of September issue 192. I hope that you're doing well.

I'm excited to share with you this list of stories we have for the month. So I hope

whether this is your first story or it's over 770 at this point. I hope that you're enjoying

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Clark's Role to see how you can be a part of the magazine. Our first story is titled The Slow

Deaths of Automobiles and is by Fiona Moore. Fiona Moore is a two-time B.S.F.A. award finalist,

writer and academic whose work has appeared in Clark's Role, Asimov's, Cosmas,

Infinities. Our publications include one novel, numerous articles and journals such as

Foundation, Guidebooks, Two Blakes, Seven, The Prisoner, Battle Star Galactica, and Dr. Who.

Three stage plays and four audio plays. When not writing, she is a professor of business

anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She lives in Southwest England with a

tortoise shell cat who was bent on world domination. If you like what you hear, I invite you to go

back to the island of misfit toys, which was featured in December 2020, and the Lori, which was

August 2020. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

In the woods on the edge of the ravine, we found the corpse of a car. It was so close to the cliff edge,

a determined push would have sent it tumbling down to the river. We climbed in and sat inside

the rusting shell on the sun-bleached fabric and perishing foam of the seats. Eventually,

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