You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to

the second story for the month of July 2025, issue 226. I hope that these stories are keeping you well.

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Our story is titled The Wald Garden and is by a very well-known Clarksworld author, Fiona Moore.

Fiona Moore is a BSFA award-winning writer and academic whose work has appeared in Clark's World,

Asimov, Interzone, and six consecutive editions of the best of British SF.

Her most recent fiction is the novel Rabbit in the Moon by Epic Publishing,

and her most recent nonfiction is the book Management Lessons from Game of Thrones.

She lives in southwest London with a tortoiseshell cat who was bent on world domination,

and a sealed point cat who isn't that bothered.

Other works?

King of the castle,

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