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

Greetings Clark's World citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into the second story for the month of December 2015.

The piece is titled Union and is by Tamsen Muir.

Tamsen is a writer from Auckland, New Zealand, currently teaching in the United Kingdom.

Her short-form horror fiction has appeared in such publications as Nightmare Magazine, Weird Tales,

and the magazine of fantasy and science fiction.

You can find T-A-S-N-U-I-R-D-T-A-Z-M-U-I-R,

dot Tumblr.com.

So I invite you to sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

The wives come strap 10 to a transport, hands stamped by some customs wonk. Their fingernails are frilled and raised freckles,

stipple each arm in shades of red and orange. Permit tags list their names. Mary, Moana, Ruth, Muir, Huya, Anna, Iridium, coffee, coccocco. Coffee.

Kococo.

The Franklin Crofter stand and watch from behind the barrier.

They've knocked off midday work to come.

You could practically see the pong of hot mulch and melting

boot elast America coming off of them. There's even a man there from the new Ahitu listener to take pictures.

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