You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens, I hope this podcast finds you well.

Our first order of business before we begin, the third story for the month of June, is that we'd

like to congratulate Kat Valenti for winning the Locust Award for Best Novella for her work entitled,

Silently and Very Fast.

Our third story for the month of June 2012 for issue number 69 is entitled You Were She Who Abode by E.

Catherine Tobler.

Miss Tobler lives and writes in Colorado.

Among others, her fiction has appeared in Cy Fiction, Fantasy magazine,

realms of fantasy, Tailbones, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. She is an active member of Seffwa and Senior Editor at Shimmer magazine.

You can find her at her website at W.W. dot E. Catherine.

I'm going to spell that for you. It's E. C A T A T H R I N E C A T R I N E. dot com.

So without further ado, let me tell you. A story.

Cardi, Findar dreams, but she's wide awake. She's in the war zone, ashen walls rising around her in

broken lines, but buttercream paint seeps through the gray. The pale yellow carries

with it the scent of spring a slice of blue sky, the slow curl of white curtains into a sunlit room.

This place is far away. The ground shakes underfoot rattling ash over paint and she's running, running with her heart and her throat and her hands wrapped around her rifle,

rifle pressed into her breast the way Lottie should be.

Seven strides to the alley, seven strides, and she's in, in and sliding down into the shadows.

Her gaze latches onto Ginger across the street in another alley.

Ginger prefers gunfire to

gunfire to silence. It tells them exactly where the enemy is.

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