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

Greetings, Clarkshould citizens, and welcome to the third story for the month of February,

Issue, 221. Our story is titled, We Begin Where Infinity Ends, and is by Sumtoe-Izu.

Now, Sumto, he, him, is a Nigerian Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker.

He is a creative writing MFA student at the University of Maryland

and is a scholarship recipient from Claren West, Tin House, Voodunauts, and Milford SF workshops.

His works have appeared or are forthcoming at Tor, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

uncanny, strange horizons, nightmare beneath the ceaseless skies,

Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, strange horizons, nightmare beneath ceaseless skies, Podcastle, EscapePod, Pud, Pseedopod, Poetry Magazine, and Others.

His stories have been shortlisted for the British fantasy,

Sidney J. Bounds, the Nomo, and Utopia Awards.

As an anthologist, his work includes publishing taught me as assistant editor,

and will this be a

problem as co-editor? And I just want to say, stories like these are possible each and every time

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past, thank you. You let me tell you wonderful stories. So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story.

Atop a ladder was Netu, reaching for the lights. The lights flickered as his touch neared.

Down below, Kosi held the ladder, rooting it to the round. A small breeze came and the ladder tilted, and the ladder swayed.

But NATO did not waver.

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