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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. Welcome to another issue. Issue 169, October 2020. As we creep ever closer

to the end of the year, please allow me to extend my thanks. Whether this is your first

podcast, or it's over 500 for you or somewhere in the middle. Thank you for your

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So our first story for the month is called Call Me and Mink.

And is by Brenda Cooper.

Brenda Cooper is a writer, a technology professional, and a futurist.

Brenda writes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction.

Two of her novels, The Silver Ship and the Sea, and Wilders

have won the Endeavor Award

The Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Book written by a Pacific Northwest author.

Wilders was also shortlisted for the PK Dick Award.

Many of her short stories have been reprinted multiple times and some have appeared in various years best anthologies.

Brenda's most recent novels include a climate fiction duality set in the Pacific Northwest.

And the 10th anniversary redrafted release of her Fremont's children's series of books.

You can find more about Brenda at Brenda dashper.com.

So my dear listener. Hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

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