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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. Welcome to yet another story. This is our third story for the month of

July 2025, issue 226. The story is titled Welcome to Carney by Gary Closter.

Now this story, like all of our stories here in Clarksworld,

are brought to you by your support.

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And if you already have done so,

or if you've been a really long-time supporter of the magazine,

thank you so much. We cannot do this without you. Now, Gary is a writer, a librarian,

a martial arts instructor, and a stay-at-home father, sometimes all in the same day,

but seldom all at the same time. He lives in the Midwest of the United States, surrounded by

corn, and beset by cats.

His stories have appeared in analog, Clark's World, Escape Pod, Fantasy Magazine, and many others.

He's also written a number of books for Warhammer and Age of Sigma universes.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to Interchange, and from their pause, we shall inherit. So, my dear listener,

I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Ms. Otter came to Carnie

when the day was dying, and her shadow ran down the broken road ahead of her like a line of bad luck.

Jeremiah saw it when he paused to get a drink, his stained hands, leaving brown fingerprints on his canteen.

It was hot. All the days were hot now, and they would be until the atmospheric processors sucked up enough carbon to undo a thousand years of

people lighting fire to everything they could find. And he was sweating buckets despite the growing twilight.

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