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

Greetings Clarks with citizens and welcome to the first podcast for the month of September

2024, issue 216. I want to thank you again for all of your support for this magazine.

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Our first story is titled

The Music Must Always Play and is by Marissa Lingen.

Marissa Lingen writes fantasy, science fiction, poetry, and essays.

She lives in the Minnesota River Valley near its confluence with the Mississippi and is cheerfully obsessed with its geology and

limnology. She is also inordently fond of trees to sayings, dark chocolate and

movements. Marissa is no stranger here to Clark's world either, so we employ you to go back to the plasticity of youth,

left to take the lead, and the grandmother, granddaughter conspiracy.

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

The aliens took out a large part of Mankato Minnesota with them when they went.

Their ship was a little under five kilometers in diameter,

which wiped out about a third of the center of Manquito

when it crashed.

But there was the debris field to think of.

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