You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings to Clarksville citizens and welcome to our third story for the month of November, issue 218.

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Speaking of fabulous issues, this story is titled

Luminous Glass Vibrant Seeds and and is by D.A. Jowlin Spires.

D.A. Jowlin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as New York, Hawaii, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached.

Her work appears in publications such as Clark's World, Analog,

Strange Horizons, and Anthologies of the Strange and Beautiful, MakeShift, Deep Signal, and Sharp

and Sugartooth. Her works have been selected for the year's top robot and AI stories,

and the year's top tales of space and time stories, with poetry nominated for the Reisling, Best of the

Net and Pushcart Awards. She has a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology and has conducted

National Science Foundation-funded research. Her multifaceted writing reflects her interest in food

systems, ecology, technology, and society. She has multiple stories in Clark's world, including

a bunch of nonfiction as well, so I encourage you to go read all of that. So with that said,

I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

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