You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well

For these last two stories for the month of February 2017,

Here Be Dragons.

Our first reprint for issue 125 is titled Dragons Deep and is by

Cecilia Holland. Over the span of her 30-year career, Cecilia Holland has written over 30 historical novels.

She also wrote the well-known science fiction novel floating worlds, which was nominated

for a Locust Award in 1975.

Her most recent book is a new fantasy novel, Dragon Heart.

You can find Cecilia at her website,

The Fire Drake.com.

And if you like what you hear, you can also go back to March

2016 for The King of Norway. There is non-consent in this piece. Such is the life of a maiden in an old

fantasy world. This one is coming in around 10,000 words, so I hope you can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

Once in the fishing village of St Mary under the hill, in the duchy of Asturias, there lived a girl named Perla.

One summer day she sat outside with her There lived a girl named Perla.

One summer day she sat outside with her sister, packing dried fish into casks,

to feed them through the winter,

and her sister began giving her advice.

You're a fool not to marry Erkule, Perla.

Heed me.

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