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

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

There is no real news to report, so I'm going to just jump into the second story for the month of October 2012.

The piece is entitled England Under the White Witch, by Theodor. The the Forest of Forgetting. Interfictions, a short story anthology co-edited with Delia Sherman,

Voices from Fairyland, a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems and the

Thorn and the Blossom, a novella in a two-sided accordion format.

She has been a finalist for the Nebula Crawford Locust and on the Tiptree Award honor list. She has won the World Fantasy and Risling Awards.

Her website can be found at W. W.W. dot The Adora Goss dot com that's T-H-E-O-R-A-G-O-S. And if you are a fan or you like what you hear here today. You can also find her mother's ghosts, which was in the August 2008,

Clark's World, and the follow-up writing my mother's ghosts, which was also in August 2008.

And now, without further ado, let me tell you a story. It is always winter now. When she came I was only a child,

and ankle socks my hair tied back with a silk ribbon. My mother was a

seamstress working for the house of Alexandra. She spent days on her knees saying,

yes, Madame has lost weight. What has Madame been doing?

When Madame had been doing nothing of the sort.

My father was a photograph of a man I had never seen in a naval uniform. A medal was pinned to the velvet frame.

My mother used to take me to Kensington Gardens, where I looked for fairies under the lilac bushes or in the Tulip cups.

In school we studied the Kings and Queens of England, its principal imports and exports and

home economics.

Even so young we knew that we were living in the waning days of our empire.

That after the war which had taken my father in toppled parts of London, the sun was finally setting.

We were a diminished version of ourselves.

At home my mother told me fairy tales about Red Riding Hood.

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