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Welcome to the second to the last story for the month of August

2024, issue 215.

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Our story is titled Where My Love Still Lives and is by Emily Taylor.

Emily Taylor's short fiction has appeared in such venues as Asimov's,

Egotone, and the Starship Sofo Podcast.

She lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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

I can't be rational when it comes to Augie. We were so young when we loved each other and still

young when we broke it off. I had decided to never return to meander.

But here I was again glider damaged and blown off course.

It was the only place like attack to on the borders of the livable caverns and

sellers where the last humans were subsisting as far as we knew.

What are humans but rodents after all, a few stutter steps of evolution removed?

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