You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I am so sorry this podcast is late.

Unfortunately, I was over at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California this past weekend.

And while I was there, I got a call from my father,

who's watching my children,

saying that he had lost power

due to the large, immense catastrophic snowstorm that hit the northeast.

They got about 20 inches of snow, and as you can imagine, any trees with leaves on them just gathered snow and then cracked.

It's the worst power outage that Connecticut has ever seen.

So, while I continue to make these excuses, I want to say a special thank you to Mike Allen, who

stepped in at the last minute to record this podcast.

I am using battery power to record this because I wanted to keep

the format the same. However Mike has done the majority of the work on this one and

I wanted to thank him with all of my heart.

So they're saying that I might get power back on Sunday.

Here's crossing my fingers to see that maybe I'll get it back sooner than that. So our first story out of three for the month of November in

issue number 62 is a militant piece. Fiction is by David Kletcha and Tobias S. Bekyll. David is a writer and marine combat veteran

currently living in West Michigan with his family and assorted computer junk. He works in IT to pay the bills and

like so many other beginning writers and artists. His website can be found at

www. clutch that's K-L-E-C-H-N-N-E-T-N-T. W. name we know and love dearly here at Clark's World.

Tobias is a Caribbean-born writer and New York Times bestseller who grew up in Granada,

the British Virgin Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. His latest novel, Arctic Rising, will be out

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