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

I hope that this podcast finds you safe and healthy and not so alone. I hope that you are

weathering this unprecedented occasion this terrible situation as best as you can. I have been behind on getting these

podcasts out because my anxiety has taken a great hold of me once again and the only thing I'm going to offer you at this point, aside from another

story, is this thought, while I can't promise things will be okay in the future because no one has that power, I'm glad you're here right now,

I'm glad you decided to spend this time with me and our authors and everybody who puts this stuff together for you.

And I hope it brings some comfort.

With that said, if you do need to reach out, please follow me on Twitter at Kate

underscore Baker.

Tell me how you're doing. Kate at Clark's World magazine. Kate,

at 20, Issue 163, is titled Distant Stars.

And is by P. H. Lee lives with the Rose Bushes behind an old walnut tree down a dead end road out past the highway.

Their other writing has appeared in Uncanny magazine, Visions magazine, Worlds Without

Master, and Four Ways to Die in the future. Their hobbies include cooking

and translating classical Chinese texts. If you like what you hear, I invite you to go back to October 2019, where you'll find an

arc of lightning across the eye of God.

So my dear listener, my dear friend, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Spend me mommy.

You are four years old and in the afternoon sun in the backyard of our collapsing New Brunswick rental.

Martha's at work and I'm supposed to be watching you and

studying for next month's qualls. So I'm sitting in a plastic lawn chair

making a half-hearted attempt to outline Wald's general relativity.

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