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 extraordinarily well.

There's just a brief bit of news that we'd like to report before we begin the second

podcast for the month of December.

I think we can safely say here at Clark's Roll that the last week has been particularly stressful

for many of us who were using Patreon.

You may have heard something about a fee change.

They listened and decided not to do it, but not before we lost the last six months.

You heard that right, six months of progress.

If you left, we understand.

If you don't want to return, we also understand.

We did set up an alternative though.

Check out Clark's World Citizens.com,

but we're going to need your help to get back to where we were before.

So if you're not a patron, please consider becoming one.

If you'd like to support us with a subscription via Amazon or Weightless Books, that is also an option too.

And thank you in advance for your support.

Our second story for the month of December 2017, issue 135, is titled Crossing LaSalle.

It is by Lettie Prell.

Lettie Prell is a science fiction writer who often explores the edge where humans and their technology are increasingly merging.

Her short fiction has appeared in analog, Apex, Clarksworld, and Tor.com,

and was included in anthologies The Best of Apex magazine,

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