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.

Welcome to February 2017, our first story of the month.

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Our first story for the month of February, issue 125, is called Assassins.

And is by Jack Schillingstead and Bert Cortier.

Jack Skillingston is an American science fiction writer living in Seattle, Washington.

In 2001, he was named a winner on Stephen King's on writing contest.

Jack has published numerous short stories in professional and semi-professional markets.

He's also published two novels and a short story collection.

His work has appeared in four years best anthologies and has been translated into various languages

including Russian, Polish, Czech, and French.

Jack has been nominated for the Philip K Dick Award

and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

He can reach Jack at his website,

Jack Skillingstead.com.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to September 2016 for the despoilers.

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