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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

How are those 2017 resolutions treating you?

Hope that you're kicking ass and taking names.

Before we begin, the second story for the month of January 2017 issue 124. I want to take a few moments to say thank you.

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Now our second story for the month is titled A Series of Stakes

and is by Vina Gemin Prussad.

Vina Gemin Prussad is a Singaporean writer working against the world machine.

Her short fiction has appeared in Queer Southeast Asia and Heat, a Southeast Asian urban

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