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Greetings, Clark's World Citizens.

Kate Baker here.

Hope you're doing well and aren't buried like me under four to five feet of snow up in the

northeastern part of the United States. It's been a very, very treacherous winter and I hope

that with this impending storm coming on Groundhog's Day that

we just don't disappear altogether. There isn't too much news in the way to report of

Clarkfeld magazine so I am just There isn't too much news in the way to report of Clark's

magazine, so I am just going to get into the story for February 2011.

Our story is entitled Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swersky.

Rachel's short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies and has

been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, The Sturgeon, the Million Writers Award and the

Locust Award. Her first collection, Through the Drowsy Dark, a slim volume of

fiction and poetry, came out from Aqued Press in 2010.

A second collection is forthcoming from Subterranium Press.

Rachel lives in Bakersfield, California, with her husband, a geologist who has never been to the moon.

And now, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swersky.

For Clarks World magazine, Issue No 53, February 2011. When Norbu was a child, his mother, Jamyang, told him an old Tibetan story about an

industrious but foolish troop of monkeys that lived in a forest near a well.

One dusty night, a monkey elder woke thirsty.

He crept away from his sleeping mate and went to the well for a drink. Inside he saw a reflection of the

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