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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you incredibly well.

This is our fourth story for the month of January 2018, issue 136, and it's titled

A Cigarette Burn in Your Memory, And is by Bo Balder.

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once again from the bottom of my heart. So our author is Bo Balder and she is the first Dutch

author to have been published in Clarksruled in FNSF. Her short fiction has also appeared in Escape Pod and other places.

Her S. novel, The Juan, was recently published by Pink Narcissus Press.

If you like what you hear, you can go to the bridegroom, which was July 2017, and follow

the white line, which was November 2016. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story

Good as clients have always lost someone, even if it takes them a while to work up to it. This man has lost a daughter.

His kind round face is grooved with sadness. She likes him at once, which isn't

her usual MO. She was taken two years ago, he says.

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