You are listening to a Clark's World Maxine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Welcome to July 1st, 2023 issue 202.

I hope that you're doing well.

I hope that if it is summer where you are, you're keeping cool if it's a little too hot.

Or if it's winter where you are, I hope you're keeping warm if it's a little too cold.

So if you read this month's editorial, you'll find that Neil is once again making an

impassioned plea for readers who would not yet supporting the magazine to please try to do so.

Or maybe convert if you were going through the Amazon program that was giving us a bunch

of income, which is going away to maybe think about supporting us another way.

If I can, with my whole heart, I'd like to employ you to go to patreon.com for the

last Clark's World.

We're really nervous what the next few months is going to bring, and we can't do this without

your help.

To those of you who have continued to be steady supporters of the magazine and the podcast,

I cannot thank you enough.

You are what lets me do my job.

Let's me tell you a story.

With that said, our first story for the month of July is titled Cheaper to Replace, and

is by Marie Vibbert.

Besides selling 70 odds short stories, 40-some poems and a few comics, Marie Vibbert has

been a medieval SCA squire, written 17% of the rollercoasters in the United States, and

has played O line and D line for the Cleveland Fusion Women's Tackle Football Team.

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