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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. Welcome to Issue 229 for October 2025. I hope this podcast

finds you as well as can be all things considered. I want to thank you for taking the time out of

your busy schedules to come on another adventure, to listen to another story, to meet new characters

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Our first story for the month is titled Wire Mother and is by Isabel J. Kim.

Now, Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction author based in New York City.

She is a nebula, Locus, Shirley Jackson Award and BSFA Award winner,

and her short fiction has been published in Clark's World,

Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues.

Isabel has a ton of stories here at Clark's World,

so I hope, if you like what you hear,

you'll go back and listen to the following.

Why don't we just kill the kid in the omelisk hole?

Day 10,000.

Zeta Epsilon.

Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black.

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