Read by Marguerite Kenner.

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Today we present Living Clay by Lucy Oliver. Lucy has had short stories published in Take a Break, Fiction Feast, and Stories for Children magazines. She also has work in numerous anthologies and won the Stylist magazine Microfiction competition. Currently working on an historical novel, she lives with her husband and young children who provide inspiration for her work.

You can read a short interview with Lucy — from just a few days ago — at LouTreleaven.wordpress.com. Check the shownotes for details.

Your narrator is the ever-stupendous Marguerite Kenner.

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Read by Graeme Dunlop.

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Today we present Part 2 of In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships by Suzanne van Rooyen. If you missed Part 1, it’s Episode 37 — please go back and listen to that first.

We gave Suzanne’s bio last episode so check the shownotes for Episode 37 if you want to know more. Or, you can find out more about Suzanne at http://suzannevanrooyen.com/.

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Read by Graeme Dunlop.

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Today we present In The Cemetery of Frozen Ships by Suzanne van Rooyen. Suzanne is a freelance writer and author from South Africa, currently living in Finland. She is the author of the cyberpunk novel Dragon’s Teeth, and has had several short stories published by Golden Visions Magazine, Earthbound Fiction and others. Her non-fiction articles on travel, music and other topics can be found scattered throughout the Internet. Although she has a Master’s degree in music, Suzanne prefers writings strange tales of the SpecFic persuasion and playing in the snow with her shiba inu. You can find out more about Suzanne at suzannevanrooyen.com.

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Read by Graeme Dunlop.

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Today we present The Next Joe Jones by Russ Colson. He lives with his wife, Mary, on a farmstead in northern Minnesota, far enough from city lights to see the Milky Way and the aurora borealis. He teaches planetary science, meteorology, and geology at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He writes a variety of speculative fiction and non-fiction pieces that have appeared in in Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, NewMyths.com and others. You can find out more in a NewMyths.com interview done with Russ.

The picture is by hotsoup25 on Flickr, who kindly gave us permission to use it.

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