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

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

This is our sixth story for the month of September, issue 216.

How have the September stories been treating you thus far?

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you contribute to all of that and contribute to a fantastic issue each and every month.

So thank you. Our story is titled Those Who Remember

the World. It is by Ben Berman Gone. Ben Berman Gone, he him, is the author of the novel The Years

Shall Run Like Rabbits, Buck Rider Books, 2024,

as well as the collection What We See in the Smoke, Crows Nest Books 2019, and the

novella Visitation Seeds 845 press 2020. His prose, poetry, and essays have previously been published in Clarks World magazine, Strange Horizons, The Basted Tree Publishing Co, The Thames Review,

Paminar Press, and others.

His next collection of stories, The Library Cosmic, is forthcoming with Buck Rider Books

for 2026. He lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, where he is a PhD student in English literature at the University of Calgary.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to phosphorescence and the resting place of trees.

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

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