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Greetings Clarkville citizens and welcome to the seventh story for the month of January,

issue 2008.

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Our seventh story for the month is titled You Dream of the Hive and is by CM Fields.

CM Fields is a non-binary writer of queer and anti-capitalist speculative fiction.

They live in Seattle, Washington with their beloved cats, mostly void partially

stars, and toast, and recently retired from a heroin career as an academic. They are also the co-editor of,

if there's anyone left, an anthology series

featuring the Flash fiction of marginalized writers

from across the globe.

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

And let me tell you a story.

When they recovered your body, you started to scream.

The Retrieville team, nonplussed, shoved you in a pod, slam the sound shutters, and peeled off before the siren song of the hive could claim another ship.

Two days later the blighted constitution pulled up at Alpha Five with you and a half dozen

other hummers naked and drugged to high hell.

Blas of cold air that hit you when the pod door opened, knocked whatever thin veneer of consciousness you had, developed

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