You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast with your host Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

Our eighth story for the month of January 2015, our hundredth issue, is titled The Wind Blowing and This Tide.

And is by Australian writer Damien Broderick.

Damien sold his first novel, Sorsors World in 1970.

It was later reissued in a rewritten version in the United States as The Black Grail.

Broderick's other books include the novels The Dreaming Dragons,

the Judas Mandala, transmitters, and the White Abacus,

as well as books written by Rory Barnes and Barbara Lamar.

His most recent publications is an anthology edited with John Boston, The Daymakers.

And our story today is read to you again by Alistair Stewart, a man of many intrigues and wonderful

narration. Alistair can be found over at Pseudopod. A great horror podcast for those of you who are looking for a little

chill in your life. You can find Alistair on Twitter at Alistair Stewart or go to his blog at Alistair

Stewart.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let Alistair tell you a story.

As anyone else had word of him, not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, not with this wind blowing and this tide.

My boy Jack, Rajard Kipling, 1915.

The Starship was old, impossibly old, and covered in flowers.

Despite a brisk methane breeze not a pedal nor a stamen of the bright blooms moved.

Under an impervious shield, they remained motionless, uncorrupted, altogether untouchable.

They're alive, reported the Navy remote viewer.

When I was a kid, the idea that the armed services might employ a trained technologically

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