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

Greetings Clark's Old Citizens, I hope this podcast find you extraordinarily well.

This is our fourth story for the month of December 2020 issue 171.

I want to thank you for spending this time with us this December,

this holiday season.

I hope that you are surviving. I hope that you understand that you are

not alone. I hope that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I want to thank

you for spending this time with me and the authors here at

Clark's World. I want to thank you for your support. Please visit

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So, our story is titled Conversations in the Dark and is by Clark's World

known author Robert Reed.

Robert Reed is the author of nearly 300 published stories, plus more than a dozen novels. He is best known for his great ship stories including the memory of Sky, and for the

novella A Billion Eves, which won the Hugo Award in 2007. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska

with his wife and daughter. You can find Robert at his website Robert Reed

writer.com and like I said no stranger here to Clark's world. Dating all the

way back to 2016 in January brought you the algorithms of value. A whole bunch of other stories later with his most

recent and February 2019, pain-wise, June 2019, Bonobo, and August 2020,

Nameless He.

So with that, my dear listener,

I hope you can sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

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