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This starts our second story for the month of June 2023, issue 201.

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Our title is Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone, and is my Carrie Vaughn.

Now, Carrie Vaughn's work, including the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times bestselling Kitty, Norville Urban Fantasy series,

over 20 novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award.

Her most recent novel, Questland, is about high-tech love that goes horribly wrong and the literature professor who has to save the day.

She's a contributor to the Wildcard series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. Martin,

and is a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop.

In Air Force Brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to Polly and not Charles, Conquer the Solar System, and Astrophilia.

So, my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax.

Let me tell you a story.

Mom, I swear, Mom, I don't know whether to be proud of you or horrified.

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