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

Greetings to Clarksville citizens and welcome to the second story for the month of September 2025, issue 228.

I do hope this podcast is finding you as well as can be, all things considered.

I want to thank you again for spending the time with us as we offer you new worlds,

new characters, new stories each and every month to help make things a little bit better,

offer some escape, or as a companion throughout your day. I also want to thank you for supporting this magazine, your presence,

your subscriptions, your patreon.com forward slash Clark's World, or your donations directly to us.

Help us bring you all of this each and every month. We cannot do this without you, so thank you.

If you've been a long time listener or supporter or subscriber, thank you again. And thank you if you've sent me an email.

I really appreciate getting feedback on the episode, what you like about it, how you spend your

time listening. It sincerely brightens my day. Our second story for the

month of September is titled Wireworks. It is by Sherry Singerling. Now, Sherry Singerling is a

US native living in Germany where she works as a laboratory manager and research scientist.

She spends her day staring at dust and rocks from space and her nights crafting worlds via the written word.

Outside of her work and writing, she enjoys coaxing plants to grow, walking up and down steep inclines in nature,

and listening to repetitive electronic beats, her writing falls into the Alpham shared universe and includes the novels Nithel and Nueness, as well as several short stories.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to The Seed.

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

The lights danced and flickered and paraded themselves, pixels that somehow became living,

breathing images when made legion.

A boy grinning and gripping a tuft of cotton candy, two old women with face paint

tracing the undulations of their skin. A psychic with long dark hair, hooped earrings and

...