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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you incredibly well. I hope you're making it through this month of October.

This month of spooks and ghouls and ghosts and Halloween.

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Our third story for the month of October 2020,

issue 169, is titled Wandering Rocks and is by Gregory Feeley.

Gregory Feeley writes science fiction and about science fiction.

His first novel, The Oxygen Barons, was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award,

and his stories have been finalist for the Nebula Award, and his essays and reviews have appeared

in a variety of publications including The Atlantic Monthly,

the New York Times magazine, The Washington Post Book World, and USA Today.

Feely's most recent novel is Kentoros, and he recently completed a long novel, Hamlet, a magician.

His previous Clarks World story, Cloudbornborn will be reprinted in two years best anthologies this year.

And if you like what you hear, please go to April 2016 for The Bridge of Dreams, and November 2019 for Cloudborn.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Nyad and Thalasa danced as no pair of water deities ever had. Racing about Neptune in an endless

courtship never to be consummated. If Nai had sped with purposeful

regularity even as the Lassa fell slowly behind its inner companion,

the sea goddess tilted its orbital plane so that the smaller nymph would pass above and below it,

as though yearning to glimpse its beloved from different

...