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This is our fifth story for the month of July 2024, issue 214.

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Surface story is titled, Actis Alieu or The Machine of Margot's Destruction by Natalia The Dorisu.

Natalia Theorizu has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons uncanny beneath Ceaseless Guys, Nightmare and F&SF, among others.

He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award. and The Thalia holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from SOAS, University of London, and is a

Clarion West graduate.

He was born in Greece with roots in Georgia, Russia, and Turkey.

He is also no stranger here to Clark's Riled, so if you like what you hear, you can go back to the oldest fun.

To set at twilight in a land of Reed's. The last eagle, one's Burden, and the Rain's on Mars.

So my dear listeners, I hope that you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

He knows she is coming before she understands what it is she's looking for.

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