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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to the last story for the month of January,

Issue 2008.

I hope that all the stories this month

have treated you well this far,

and you've enjoyed them. And if you have any feedback or you'd like to just say what you like to do when you're listening to the podcast or how you found the podcast or how long you've been listening. I like all of these things.

Please send me an email at

Kate at clarks world magazine.com and that is Clark with an e. Our last story is

titled You Cannot Grow Insulted Earth by Priacond. Priacond is a California transplant living in the Midwest.

Her work is inspired by a background in biology and has previously appeared in magazines including

the magazine.

and if you like what you hear, you can go back to it takes a village,

optimizing the path to Enlightenment,

and social Darwinism.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story.

There are days when you consider telling the story

when the winds are too strong for the children to venture past the mud walls.

The vid streams crackle with too much static to be watchable, leaving untouched the surplus of power from the spinning windmills.

On these days the waterways run cold and clear, lending their coolness to the city,

the fountain behind you drifting from splash to roar and back. These are the days when the children stroll

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