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 extraordinarily well.

This is our fourth story for the month of January 2022, issue 184.

Our longest of the year, so far.

That joke never gets old.

I mean, yes, it does, but anyway, so this is our longest story for the year and it comes

in at about 20,630 words.

So I'm not going to delay too, too much, but I want to thank you for sticking around.

I want to thank you for your support and let's get into it.

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Our story is titled Bishops Opening, which is by RSA Garcia.

RSA Garcia, who can be found at the website, rsa Garcia.com, writes speculative fiction and

lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many cats and dogs.

Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Tyllionus, received a star review from publishers

weekly, the silver medal for best sci-fi fantasy horror book from the Independent Publishers

Awards in 2015, and became an Amazon bestseller.

She has published short fiction in magazines such as Clark's World magazine, Escape Pod,

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