You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarksville Citizens, we made it to November. We are catching up on a

backlog of audio podcasts, so thank you again for being patient

while we dealt with a bunch of different things that have caused us to slightly

fall off track. Your patience is greatly appreciated and as is your support.

As I've mentioned numerous times before,

2023 has been a rather challenging year,

in many different ways, personal to financial here at Clark Terrell, with Amazon

making some major changes that wiped out a lot of our income.

So for those of you who have been supporting the magazine financially, whether it's through a subscription or a donation via Patreon.com

Forage slash Clark's world, we cannot thank you enough. You are the lifeblood of this magazine. You keep it going.

If you aren't yet a supporter, again, please consider doing so, especially this holiday season. It would be greatly appreciated.

Our first story for the month of November, 2023, issue 206 is titled Eddies are the

worst. It is by Bo Balder. Bo Balder is no stranger here to Clark's World having multiple stories within the magazine over the years, including Estivation troubles, love in the season of new dance,

The Pirates Consigliere,

Tatching, the answer was snails.

Bo Balder lives and works close to Amsterdam.

Bo was the first Dutch author to have been published in

Clark's world, F&S F, analog, and other places. Her es of novel The Juan was

published by Pink Narcissus Press. When not writing she knits, reads, and gardens, preferably all three at the same time.

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

From the instant the first Eddie

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