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

Greetings Clarkswell citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of October 24, issue 217. As always, I want to thank you,

whether this is the first story you're listening to or somewhere over a thousand. We simply

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Our story is titled The Children of Flame and is by Fiona Moore.

Now Fiona Moore is a BSFA award-winning writer and academic whose work has appeared in Clark's World, Asimov's, Interzone, and six consecutive editions of the best of British SF.

Her most recent fiction is the short story collection Human Resources, NewCon Press, 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 tortoiseshell cat which is bent

on world domination. And Fiona is no stranger here at Clark's World. I implore you to go back

and listen, should you so choose, to the Port Marion Road, Morag's boy, the spoil heap, the slow

deaths of automobiles, and the island of misfit toys. So, my dear listener, I hope that you can

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

When Moraig saw one of the children aflame walking in her front gate, taking off their

gulf feather mask and shaking out untidy, blonde red locks of hair, all she said was,

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