You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to the second story for the month of February 2025, issue 221. The story is titled King of the Castle and is by Fiona Moore. As always, this story and all of Fiona's stories, along with every single story that you listen to here at Clark's World are brought to you by your ongoing support.

So if you have gone to patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld or Clarksworld citizens.com, I cannot thank you enough for doing so.

You allow me to tell you these wonderful stories each and every month, multiple times a month.

If you haven't yet, please consider doing so. Each and every bit helps us get a little bit closer

to our goals. Now, Fiona Moore is a BSFA award-winning writer and academic whose work has appeared in Clark's World

Asimov, Incer's Own, and six consecutive editions of the Best of British SF. Her most

recent fiction is the short story collection Human Resources, New Conpress, and her most recent

nonfiction is the book Management Lessons from Game of Thrones. Her publications include one novel,

five cult TV guidebooks, three stage plays, and four audio plays. She lives in southwest London

with a tortoise shell cat, which is bent on world domination, and a seal point cat, which is

not too bothered. Now this story is said in the same world as are a bunch of other stories we've published here at

Clark's World. Some are called the Children of Flame, the Port Marion Road, Morag's Boy,

the spoil heap, and the slow deaths of automobiles. So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

We wouldn't mind Virgil living in the big house, Naomi said, refreshing Morag's cup of tea,

if he would only keep to himself, but he killed one of Riannon's sheep and he pulled a knife on

young Christine.

Not a bad thing to stop that girl playing around the big house, though.

Morag spoke more lightly than she felt, trying to play down her own worries.

Naomi ran the village post office and read a lot of books, and so was the person people

went to when they needed a representative or spokesperson.

Morag, five years her senior, was the person people went to when they needed something fixed,

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