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You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast

with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you very well.

For those of you who downloaded our new app available on the Android and the Apple

stores, thank you very much. As always, thank you for your ongoing support.

And I will let you know before the story begins, this has adult content in it.

So please keep them in mind as I read this next story to you.

Our second story for the month of October 2013. The piece is titled

Bits, written by Naomi Kritzer. Now Naomi's short stories have appeared in Asimov's, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

realms of fantasy and strange horizons. This is our first appearance in Clark's world.

Her novels, fires of the faithful, turning the storm, freedom's World. Her novels, Fires of the Faithful, Turning the Storm, Freedom's Gate, Freedom's

Apprentice, and Freedom's Sisters are available from Bantam. Since her last novel came out,

she has written an urban fantasy novel about a Minneapolis woman who unexpectedly inherits the arc of the covenant,

a children's science fictional shipwreck novel, a children's portal fantasy, and a YA novel set on a

dystopic, Stistead.

She has two e-book short story collections out,

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