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Read by Jusitn Lowmaster who can be found at www.thebeandom.com/spaceturtle and www.thespaceturtle.com.’ Find more by our author at www.robertreedwriter.com

Today we are proud to present a story by Mike Resnick. The story is The Last Dog, be warned you may find this is a very sad story. If your not able to cry where your at, you may wish to hold off on listening to the story. We do apologize for this story being late, the next one will most likely also be late. Details as to why, are given in this episode.

Read by Ace Antonio Hall This story is rated r for language. Episode 26 is part of our Dog Appreciation Month at Clonepod in honor of our new puppy, WallE and our dog, Hazel, who has welcomed WallE into the family. Scott Bradfield has worked in Hollywood writing scripts for Sony, Universal, Working Title and Roger Corman's Concorde Films.  He has written two books entitled Hot Animal Love and Good Girl Wants it Bad.  Recent work has appeared in Bookforum, thefanzine.com and the New York Ghost.

Read by Leslie Ann Moore audio engineering by Bruce McDonald Music by Robert Farmer Happy New Year from everyone at clonepod.  Today we are releasing the promised Flash Fiction piece that we had intended to release for Christmas before we knew we could run the wonderful steampunk story, Cold Duty for Christmas.   The author of today's story, Jonathan Lowe, has a website that includes interviews and reviews of audio books.  We recommend checking his work out at Justsaynoway.com (http://www.justsaynoway.com).  I was in the air en route to Jamaica once when the guy next to me said:  "We aliens like to fly first class."          I looked at him, closely.  He winked.  Twice.  On the second wink I spewed the gin and tonic I'd been sipping all over him.  Luckily, the old folks sitting across from us were asleep, precluding embarrassment.  Although I did have a good excuse for it.  After all, the guy doing the winking had two eyelids, the second resembling an icky green jelly-like membrane.  Other than this rather minor oversight he could have passed for any insurance salesman.

Today we are very pleased to announced Steampod’s first every Christmas Story by airing it on clonepod as well.  Tonight’s story is Cold Duty. It was written by J. Daniel Sawyer of Literary Abominations (http://jdsawyer.net/). The story is read by Stephen Killbride of the Tea and Chat Podcast (http://teaandchat.com/).  If you enjoyed the story, head on over to steampod (http://steampod.org) for more.

audio engineering by Bruce McDonald read by Leslie Ann Moore music by Robert Farmer Parental Guidance recommended.  Suggestive Language How to Deal With Your Daughter and Her Crabs was previously published in 2005 in Alien Skin magazine.  Brian Salyard's work also appears in Alien Skin and in the Redjack Books anthology Anathema. Charles sat at a dinner table much too large for just himself and his wife, chewing his lip with rapidly increasing annoyance.  Jaycee was now thirty-five minutes late.            It was bad enough she hadn’t let him pick her up from the airport; now he watched the sedentary Tofurky® harden and become fouler by the second.  A fly crouched on it, rubbing its legs with delight, and perhaps confusing it for its usual meal of choice.  Charles was not inclined to shoo it.  As a retired entomology professor, he was often more comfortable around the six-legged than the two    

Read by Leslie Ann Moore Audio engineering by Bruce McDonald Music by Robert Farmer Leslie Ann Moore works in the healing profession and is the author of Griffin's Daughter.  She is part of the clonepod team as an editor and a frequent narrator for clonepod's stories.  You can listen to the podcast of her exciting book at http://leslieann.podomatic.com. Invisible explores a world so obsessed by youth that people literally become invisble when they age...

Read by Leslie Ann Moore Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald Music by Robert Farmer Ending Song  "Re: Your Brains" by Johnathan Coulton Parental Guidance Strongly Suggested No tricks today, only a treat - a new Union Dues story!  Also included is a Halloween Song which we love and hope you will too. Most of our listeners are familiar with Jeffrey DeRego’s Union Dues series both on escapepod (http://escapepod.org/)and now his new series of the Team Shikaragaki on our podcast.  If you haven’t yet been infected with the Union Dues bug, you will have the joy of getting to go back into our archives and escapepod’s Union Dues archives (http://escapepod.org/index.php?s=union+dues)to catch up with the stories I'm on my second Martini when I feel Miss Jennifer enter the Jumpin' Catfish Lounge: Home of the Buck-Fifty Draft. The bar is attached to a seedy little candlepin bowling alley wedged between an abandoned church, Baptist I think, and a dirt parking lot stuffed with pickup trucks. The walls are papered with posters for low-rent country cover bands, amateur wrestling, and The World Famous Solomon Brothers Traveling Circus. A wagon wheel chandelier throws enough light that I can't even blend into the shadows so she's sure to see me. I've got an ear-worm and the gin is dulling it some but not chasing it away. This isn't a regular ear-worm, you know, like the first two bars of a TV theme song that perpetually cycle through your head like some supernatural torture. No, this is a stray thought.

Read by Bruce McDonald Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald Jeff Carlson is the author of the internationally acclaimed sci fi thrillers Plague Year, Plague War, and the upcoming Mind Plague. Foreign rights to the book have sold in Spain, Germany, and Romania.  Plague Year has also been released on CD from Recorded Books and as a digital download from Audible.com. Mr. Carlson’s other short fiction credits include sales to Writers of the Future XXIII, Asimov's, and the recent Fast Forward 2 anthology, as well as several reprints in Hebrew, Turkish, Czech, and Romanian.  Audio versions of his stories have also appeared on Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Starship Sofa.  He welcomes correspondence at www.jverse.com (http://www.jverse.com/), where readers can find free fiction, videos, blog, contests, and more. No one ever caught me eating hair before -- and this dude wasn't shy.  He shouted, "What are you doing!" I'd just begun styling a natural blonde, a wonderfully plump little thing whose body was all curves.  She looked around and I nearly hacked open her jugular. "Careful."  I palmed my scissors and used both hands to size out her bangs, pretending I didn't realize the dude meant me, hoping he'd go away.  But he was a Watch.  I'd already spotted the pin-point cameras tucked behind his ears, as if his puffy  wolfman curls, shaped to conceal, weren't indication enough. The good news was that he probably wasn't live on-line.

Read by Bruce McDonald Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald Old Folk's Homewas originally published in the Jim Baen's Universe.  Mr Kratman's fiction has also appeared in Aeon Speculative Fiction, Dark Recesses Press, and many other markets. Bobby Cullivan finished entering the staff schedules and leaned back in his chair, doing his best to ignore the arthritic twinge in his hip.  It was nice to be calling the shots again. His son, Joe, did a decent job managing the retirement station, but Bobby missed being in charge.  Joe went down to Earth once every three months for a few weeks of high gravity and Bobby looked forward to his son's time away.

read by Bruce McDonald audio engineering by Bruce McDonald Illustration by the author, Liz Mierzejewski (http://www.clonepod.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/memory-of-maggie-300x251.jpg)   Liz Mierzejewski is a middle school science teacher from Connecticut.  She is an avid (some would say obsessive) sf reader and uses it extensively in her science classes.  Her work has appeared in the online zine Toasted Cheese and in the magazine Motherverse. Liz is also a panelist on the popular Battlestar Galactica Roundtable podcast.  Look for it on Itunes! Looking at that empty box covered with photographs and flowers that morning, I still held out hope. “Is she dead?” they would ask me.  Some would pull me by my elbow, being discreet in the company of Maggie’s family, but it was always the same question.  “Do you think she’s dead?” With as much discretion, I would whisper.  I had to whisper, my voice shot to hell from screaming her name in the endless caverns.  “I don’t know.”  I want to believe she’s alive, but even using that word right now seems ludicrous, considering the circumstances.

Read by Leslie Ann Moore Audio Engineering by Bruce McDonald Matthew Johnson has published stories in markets such as Asimov's Science Fiction and Strange Horizons as well as anthologies including Best New Fantasy 2 and Fantasy: The Best of the Year (2007 and 2008 editions.) 'Outside Chance' was first published in the Summer 2006 issue of On Spec.        Jacob watched the future fade from view as he triggered the relay. He was not sad to see it go; it was a bad one, like a Beckett play come to life. It wasn't hard to imagine Vladimir and Estragon bickering in this wasteland, or Hamm and Clov playing tug-of-war at the end of the world.       Outlines were like that, often as not. It was his job to find out how they got that way, what chain of events had led to the particular doom each future embodied, and to bring back anything that might help ensure the survival of the present. He did not, as much as possible, talk to the people. They didn't really exist, after all; that is to say, they wouldn't.

read by Patty Kim audio engineering by Bruce McDonald Inside Every Successful Man was first published in the semi-pro webzine Hub last October.  Mr Jones has also been published in Murky Depths and Cosmos, among others, and recently had a story accepted by Nature magazine The sound of  galloping hooves getting closer intruded on the quiet, muggy air of the lounge.  Jav groaned and slouched further back into the cosy embrace of his favourite armchair.  He put the glass of whisky down guiltily, but there was no hiding it from the black-clad rider who reigned in his horse and dismounted with the ease of someone who has ridden all his young life.  Jav closed his eyes wishfully, but horse and rider were still there, superimposed in his middle vision by the nanites linked to his optical nerve.    “What ya’ drinkin’?”  The cowboy asked, knowingly  

read by Leslie Ann Moore Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats was originally published in 2004 in the Writers of the Future anthology. Ken Brady's publications include: Analog, Writers of the Future, Strange Horizons, Talebones, Ideomancer, Darker Matter, Fortean Bureau, Weird Tales, Frequency, Rosebud, The William and Mary Review, and a variety of anthologies and foreign markets. People descended in gleaming metal, fire burning bright across the cloud-streaked sky.  They touched down and they stayed.  They built, they charted, they named names, they changed the composition of the air.  They explored with sensors and unmanned aircraft.  When they found the planet safe, they bred.  The first child, Pietor, was a test.