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Clark's world. So our second story for the month of November is titled

Bird Girl builds a machine as by Hannah Young.

Hannah Young is a speculative fiction author who writes about real people and surreal worlds.

Her work has appeared in Apex Analog Fantasy Nightmare and Multiple Years Best Anthologies.

Locust Award finalist Hannah lives in Seattle where she consumes large quantities of

coffee.

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

Your mother spends every evening working on her machine.

It looks like no other machine you've seen, a hunk of metal on the ground with wires stringing each

section to the next.

Like the inside of a giant robot's belly, if someone cut it open to

expose the raw gape of its innards. She's been constructing it piece by piece for as long as you

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