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

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

It's our third story for the month of October 2018, Issue 145. And as always this story and all our stories,

our art, our podcast, and our non-fiction,

is brought to you by you.

Thank you so much if you are an ongoing patron or have signed up over at Clarks World Citizens.com

And if you haven't yet, please consider doing so. Each and every dollar helps. Our third story is titled

When We Were Starless and is by Simone Heller.

Simone Heller lives on an island in the river Danube in a town near Munich, Germany.

As a literary translator, she lends her voice to writers in the SFF field by day. By night she speculates on

what if questions in her own words. Obsessions include linguistics, in which she holds a master's degree, and cartography in which she holds

onto a collection of maps far more extensive than her wall space.

You can find Simone at misnavigator.com and if you like what you hear how

bees fly was in February 2017.

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

relax, and let me tell you a story.

When we set out to weave a new world from the old, broken one.

We knew we pledge the lives of our clutches and our clutches clutches to wandering the

wastes.

Season after season, our wind readers find us a path through the poison currents,

and our herds scuttle over molten glass seas and pock-marked plains, into the haunted places where the harvest is plentiful. We move swiftly, outpacing vapors and

packs of wild dogs alike, leaving only the prints of our tails in acrid sands.

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