You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to the fourth story for September 2021, issue 180. I do hope you're well.

I want to say thank you because I've gotten some emails in the last couple of weeks and months.

From some of you who have listened along with the podcast, then who I've encouraged to write in.

And I want to say thank you for taking the time to do that.

I read every single one and I will be getting back to you.

I've had a extraordinarily busy couple of months.

And I find it interesting that some of you have noticed maybe an uptick in my voice.

He's sound happier and I am.

So to those of you who wrote in while it was happening and asking me if I was all right,

to those of you who have written and now saying that you've heard a substantial change.

Thank you.

I can't tell you how much that means.

If you would like to engage with either Neil or I, you can go to our About page at the Clarksworld

magazine website itself and all of our contact information is there.

Neil is at Clarksworld, Clark with an E and I am Kate underscore Baker

over on Twitter.

And while Clarksworld is committed to free online fiction, what we do costs a lot of money.

So any help is greatly appreciated and helps sustain Clarksworld for months if not years to come.

And if you're already a supporter in that method, thank you.

So our fourth story is titled Dog and Pony Show and is by Robert Chishenek.

...