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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

It is our first story for the month of March, roaring in like that proverbial

lion. Issue 150 and I hope wherever you, whether you are celebrating spring or heading into fall.

I hope you are well and productive.

And I thank you for taking the time to stop by and listen to yet another podcast.

And if you're a subscriber or a supporter on Patreon or Clarksworld Citizens.com,

thank you.

You make each and every month happen from our original fiction to our partnership with StoryCom to our

reprints and our non-fictions and this podcast.

Thank you so much. So our first story is titled But Still, I Smile, and is by

D. A. Shaolin Spires. Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as Hawaii, New York,

various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached.

Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as Clark's World, Analog, Nature,

Terraform, Grievous Angel, Fireside, Galaxy's Edge, Starship sofa, And Drama to Spaceways,

Year's Best Issue, and a whole heck of a lot more places.

She can be found on Twitter at Spires writer and over at her

website D. A. Shaolin Spires.com. And if you like what you hear, as I mentioned, she's no stranger to Clark's world.

August 2017 brought you twisted knots with a few other stories thrown in there.

December 2018 brought you marshmallows.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

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