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

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

This is our fourth story for the month of August 2020, issue 167.

How you holding up?

We're almost through what we in America call summer. It's been hot here, dry. Our grass is brown, our gardens not growing. We're in desperate need of some rain.

I'd love to hear from you and how you're coping with this summer

during this unprecedented time. You can reach me at Kate at clarkshold magazine.com if you'd like to just drop in and say hello

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Our fourth story is titled An Important Failure,

and is by Rebecca Campbell.

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer and teacher.

Her work has appeared in the year's best science fiction and fantasy, the

year's best dark fantasy and horror, tour.com, the magazine of fantasy and

science fiction, and Interzone.

New West Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013.

She mostly uses her PhD in Canadian literature

to make up sad futures and weird fictions.

You can find Rebecca at the website where is here.

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