You are listening to a Clark's World Vaccine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Welcome to our first podcast for the month of August 2024, issue 215.

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Our first story for the month of August is called The Time Capsule

and is by Alice Toe.

Alice Toe is a writer of speculative fiction and poetry based out of Northern California.

In addition to Clark's world, her short stories have appeared in Asimov's,

Fireside, and Analog.

She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.

When she's not writing, she works as a civil engineer

specializing in water resources management.

Visit her website for more information on her writing as well

as photos of her two charming cats. And her website is Alice Toe.com and that is A L I C E T O W E Y.com.com. So my dear listener I see you.

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

I was out on the playa cleaning dust off the commune solars the day the probe landed.

At first I thought it was a shooting star, but then it crashed in the distance with a thump and I could feel it in my sit-bones.

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