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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm extraordinarily well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm going to jump right into the third story for the month of August 2017, issue 131.

Again, we've noticed our patron numbers sort of sliding and stagnant and sliding. So if you have a couple dollars, we would love if you could show your support via

Patreon.com forward slash Clark's World. The third story of the month is called

The Stone Weather and is by Octavia Cade.

Octavia Cade has a PhD in science communication and has most recently been researching

sea grasses. Her stories have appeared in places like Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and Apex magazine amongst others.

She particularly likes to write mash-ups of science history and speculative fiction, a short novella on Ernest Rutherford,

along these lines. The Ghosts of Matter recently won a Sir Julius Vogel Award.

She attended Clarion West 2016,

and is currently working on a sci-fi novel about marine conservation

and future New Zealand.

You can find Octavia at the website OJ Cade.com. And if you like what you hear, March 2017 brought you,

Crown of Thorns. Hemerena meori.

In winter, the mountain stone weta crawls into crevices, into cracks in the stone, and it

squats there waiting.

It is a creature of summer days and winter strengths, of cryogenic hibernation.

When the world freezes about it, becomes a stretch of snow and ice and darkness, the stone

weta freezes solid in its bolt hole.

82% of the water in its body

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